CLEOPATRA'S COSMETIC.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14835, 28 November 1913, Page 6

CLEOPATRA'S COSMETIC.

The collection of Egyptian antiquities at tho Manchester Museum has had a valuable reinforcement recently in the shape of relics dug up at Memphis and other places in the land of the Pharoahs (says "Lloyd's Weekly News"). Among the finds arc little alabaster vases with lids to them, which are believed to have been used for cosmetic, such as might have been used by Cleopatra and her ladies. Some of the preparation is still left in tho form of a fine powder. Then we find a palette stained with, preen malachite, with the powder of which the Egyptians were wont to paint their faces, and an ivory spoon, which is supposed to date back to a period just prior to the first Eprptian dynasty, and on which are represented two arms and hands, the latter formin? the bowl of the spoon. A blue glaze jar, in which the colour is

stiU very strong, belongs to the ■c-CTptian dynasty, or over oQOU veir* W'SB.C. This was found by ProfessorK ■%■ ders Petne at Tarkhsm, which is aboat forty miles south.of Cairo. .-'Mm