ABSTRACT

The Egyptians used perfume ladles for making either essences, pomades, or the various coloured pigments with which both men and women painted the cheeks and palms of the hand. The perfume ladles and boxes were as necessary in the tomb as they had been on earth. At the time of Ramessides, between fourteenth and twelfth centuries BC, fashion introduced Syrian manufactures into Egypt; later, under Bubastis and under Ethiopian kings of XXVth Dynasty. Theban ladies wore long skirts, and this is only turned up high to facilitate walking among the reeds without soiling its edges. They were still manufactured at Memphis and in the important cities of the Delta until the Ptolemies and the Csars. It was exactly this Memphian art that almost exclusively supplied the Phoenician market from the time of Sheshonq. It is difficult to find any like them in Egypt now, and those that are discovered are very inferior to these in delicacy and quality.