<p>The focus of this book is on the flat stone pallettes on which minerals were ground to dust, mixed with grease, oil and/or resin and used as eye make-up. Not only women used the mixture, which was also used as eye medicine, but also men and boys in order to help them achieve their ideal of beauty. Regner describes the pallettes, which were in use from prehistory to the dynastic era and not only in Egypt, their size, find sites, chronology and the materials they were made of.</p>

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History

Regner, Christina

Ancient Civilizations

Harrassowitz Verlag

The focus of this book is on the flat stone pallettes on which minerals were ground to dust, mixed with grease, oil and/or resin and used as eye make-up. Not only women used the mixture, which was also used as eye medicine, but also men and boys in order to help them achieve their ideal of beauty. Regner describes the pallettes, which were in use from prehistory to the dynastic era and not only in Egypt, their size, find sites, chronology and the materials they were made of.

Bonner Sammlung Von Aegyptiaca / Keramik (German Edition)

Otto Harrassowitz

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Bonner Sammlung Von Aegyptiaca / Keramik (German Edition)