Fig. 210.—Combs.
In some cases the appearance of a heater was more suggestive of its purpose. One ([Fig. 207]) has the form of an ordinary brazier, the water being heated in the hollow space about the fire pan. In another instance ([Fig. 208]) the brazier is ornamented with towers and battlements like those of a diminutive fortress; the faucet can be seen in our illustration, on the left side.
An interesting group of toilet appliances for the bath was found in the Baths north of the Forum ([Fig. 209]). Hanging from a ring were an unguent flask, four scrapers (strigiles), and a shallow saucer with a handle in which the unguent was poured out when it was to be applied. One of the scrapers is repeated in a side view at the right, and both side and front views of the unguent saucer are given.
Small articles of toilet are discovered in a good state of preservation. The forms in most cases do not differ greatly from those to which we are accustomed.
The fine comb seen in [Fig. 210] a is of bone; the two coarse combs ([Fig. 210] b and [Fig. 214] d) are of bronze.
Fig. 211.—Hairpins. Underneath, two small ivory toilet boxes.
