Kohl Containers

This category includes objects used to hold kohl. They are usually small cylindrical vessels, or boxes made of stone or clay. 

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Object	U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
	11214	(none)	(none)	B16969	Silver Paint Box. In 2 compartments consisting of 2 small hemispherical bowls with a straight partition between. Traces of black paint in one compartment. Minute perforated lugs on either side in the middle to allow of suspension. Rib runs round width of belly of box on the outside. [drawing]
	15459	(none)	(none)	(none)	Kohl pot. Marble(?) White. In form of double column. [drawing 1:1] TA
	17092	(none)	(none)	(none)	Kohl pot. Limestone? White. Shaped as a double column, ech one perforated to hold the kohl.
	17139	(none)	(none)	(none)	Ivory kohl-pot in the form of a lotus carved and with lines inlaid with black. In very bad condition. Broken and laminated. [drawing 1:1]
	17140	(none)	1931,1010.191	(none)	Kohl tube. Bone. Lathe-turned. [drawing 1:1]
	17440	(none)	(none)	(none)	Kohl pot? Ivory? Fragment.
	17636	(none)	(none)	(none)	Kohl holder. Frit. Double variety. [drawing 1:1]
	19426	(none)	(none)	(none)	Kohl pot.. 'alabaster'. Half of : originally two circular pots (with holes for restoring lids) made in one piece, supported by the figure of a reclining ram. Coarse wash[?]. Broken in half and only one receptacle at the front part of the ram remaning.
	19427	(none)	(none)	(none)	kohl-pot. 'alabaster'. rectangular, with two window receptacles. Round the shoulder a band of rope moulding in relief.
	19428	35-1-42	(none)	(none)	Kohl-pot. 'alabaster'. rectangular ram[?]-shaped on 4 short legs, rope moulding along shoulder : 2 cylinder receptacles.
	19529	(none)	(none)	(none)	2 Stone vases in stand. White calcite. Type JN 27
	2631	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of small soap-stone box. Engraved with circular design. Sketch. [drawing]
	7904	(none)	(none)	(none)	Paint pot. Ivory. In form of sphinx of Phoenico-Assyrian style: the box is an oblong depression between the wings. Indifferent carving, and the wing in poor condition; half of the face of the sphinx missing. [additional notes on back of catalog card follow:] U.6665, correct Pl. reference in Pl.25. Plate 15. Captions wanted. Pl.23 = add catalogue number. Keep Pl.33 but insert the new weapon types. For Pl.34 (new), use metal objects above and 800m ran [last word illegible] types infers. Change Plate numbers 34 (adr[...]) h3. Plate 36, keep number. Plate 35, adr[...], change number h3. Pl.37 (adr[...]) to become a figure in the text. pp.25. Gold to catalogue U.6456, Legrain's [illegible] No.734.
	7907	(none)	(none)	(none)	Kohl stick case. Ivory. Plain tube rounded at base. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
	8731	(none)	(none)	B17221	Rectangular paint? box. Limestone. Grey. Resting on 4 low legs. 5 holes 0025 deep and 002 in diam bored into the receptacle. One hole in the middle and one at each corner; two horizontal ribs decorated with vertical notches rim round the sides of the box. One leg missing - part of top missing. [drawing 1:3] sketch.

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