hairpins

Ivory or bone hair pin. Top decorated with head of woman with hair combed high. On her forehead there is a hair band with six small holes, perhaps to indicate decoration.

- William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Objects of Daily Use, 24, pl. XIX.62
- Swift, Ellen, A Social Archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Egypt, 48

Roman Period

bone, ivory

LDUCE-UC40670

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology