=Combs.=--To begin with the more necessary implements, the combs go back to a high antiquity. An ivory comb from Enkomi in Cyprus dates from the Mycenaean age (No. =397=; fig. 164). It is of simpler form than later combs, having only one row of teeth. The others are of the Greek and Roman periods, and are made both of wood and bone. The usual pattern is that of a modern tooth-comb, with a row of teeth on each side of the body--one coarse and one fine. There are wooden examples from Kertch, in South Russia (No. =398=). More elaborate is the ivory piece, which is decorated with reliefs, a Gryphon and a lion on one side and two cranes at a fountain on the other (No. =399=. The original is in the case of Ivories, L). Another of good Roman period is carved by an amateur hand with an inscription, doubtless in compliment to the lady to whom it belonged (No. =400=; fig. 164). The legend reads +MODESTINA·V·H·E·E+--the four letters at the end being perhaps abbreviated epithets of the fair Modestina, _V(irgo) H(onesta) E(t) E(gregia)_. A different type appears in the triangular pocket-comb, which fits into a protecting case (No. =401=; fig. 164). This belongs to the end of the Roman Empire, the fourth century A.D., and may already show the influence of barbarian art. Similar combs were brought to England by the Danes, and some of them which have been found at York and elsewhere are exhibited in the British and Mediaeval Department. [Illustration: FIG. 164.--IVORY COMBS, OF THE MYCENAEAN AND ROMAN PERIODS (NOS. 397, 400, 401). 1:3.] With the combs is a brush of vegetable bristles from an Egyptian rubbish heap of a late period of the empire (No. =402=).