Skip to main content

Egyptian hair comb with an animal handle

Image attached to E.GA.4576.1943

An image of Cosmetic equipment. Comb, with animal handle. Production Place: Egypt. Wood, 1400-1301 B.C.

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

About this image

Cosmetic equipment. Comb, with animal handle. Production Place: Egypt. Wood, 1400-1301 B.C.

Image data

  • Accession Number: E.GA.4576.1943
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 50
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Anna Karbownik
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 602 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 391.37kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2053:01:07 21:28:02

Key words

afro-comb Ancient Egypt animal animals antiquity BC bears comb cosmetic equipment cosmetica Egyptian Fitz_ANT hair comb wood wooden

Colours in this image

rgb(77,59,44), rgb(242,242,242), rgb(132,106,84), rgb(158,132,106), rgb(189,162,136), rgb(162,146,133), rgb(210,186,159), rgb(197,193,190), rgb(114,106,108), rgb(116,116,116), rgb(215,202,191)

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Egyptian hair comb with an animal handle" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-201495 Accessed: 2024-03-28 17:30:05

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-201495 |title=Egyptian hair comb with an animal handle |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-03-28 17:30:05|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-201495

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant46/E_GA_4576_1943_1_2010_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Comb"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Egyptian hair comb with an animal handle</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>
    

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...