Word: kohl
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Bache found crumbled temple and dwelling walls, spindles, loom weights, hammer-stones, hones, knives and scrapers for leather-working and basketmaking, combs, ointment mortars, receptacles for the kohl with which the women darkened their eyelids. On this level also were tombs which had sunk through the silt from the Eighth Level: wooden coffins with their skeletons undisturbed, buried in graves lined by mud bricks. In these tombs were rosettes and beads of gold (the most ancient fabricated gold ever discovered) ; weapons, seals, vessels of obsidian; a wolf's head of electrum (gold & silver alloy); shell beads and such semiprecious...