File:Egyptian Kohl pot with traces of palm oil eye-paint and lead HARGM3676.jpg

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Ataff member of Harrogate Galleries and Museums
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An Ancient Egyptian cosmetics pot found Analysis on the eye-paint by York University, who used mass and gas spectrometry, revealed the eye paint was made from the black lead ore galena, crushed and mixed with date palm oil.It came from Abydos date circa 1500BC
Date (date of photograph) 2015-04-09
Source/Photographer Harrogate Galleries and Museums

Originally owned by John Garstang circa 1908.Later part of BWJ Kent's collection until 1968

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