Note 43: — XI.—DRESS AND TOILET. (Table-Case F.)

Toilet Boxes.—Other relics of the dressing-table are the toilet-boxes and scent-bottles. There is a Greek toilet-box from Naukratis still coloured by the rouge which it contained (No. 403); and another has a carved wooden lid in the shape of a woman's head of great beauty (No. 404). A leaden box was found in a Greek tomb at Halikarnassos (No. 405). Another was given by Kratylos of Aegina to Eulimine. The inscription, the modern turn of which is perhaps not free from suspicion, describes it as a "slight token of respect from a certain small Aeginetan" (No. 406; fig. 165).43 Other boxes of bronze and ivory date from the Roman period. Most of the wooden boxes are carved in fantastic or frivolous shapes: a swimming duck, a crouching boar, and a shoe (Nos. 407, 408, 409). These are divided into compartments for the various powders, and some blocks of paint are still preserved. For liquid ointments there are an alabaster box (No. 410) and three bottles of the same material and remains of a leather bottle with its cork (No. 411). An Etruscan bronze cista, which stands on three human feet, contains a set of movable tubes, each for a different unguent (No. 412). The lid of this receptacle was crowned by the small bronze statuette which stands beside it. Besides cosmetics for the complexion, the toilet-boxes may have held tooth-powders, for which there are many receipts in the works of ancient writers on medicine.