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THE ROMANS 99
nia\' be touiul m Nanous collections ot antKjUiries. In Crimea a most
elegant gold ohiect, ot (iieek make, was toimd, w liich is, h\ its two ends,
both a toothpick and an ear-picker. It belongs most probaliK to the
fourth centur\ before Christ.'
In an ob|ect found m the north ot S\\ it/erland, and coming from a
Roman military colon\- ot the times ot the Empire, the toothpick and
ear-picker are joined at one ot their ends, bv a pivot, to other toilet
articles.
Fig. 29
A metal toothpick and ear-picker joined to other toilet articles. An object found in
Switzerland, in the ancient seat ot a Roman military colony.
Fig. ?o
An ancient toothpick and ear-picker of bronze, found m the north ot trance,
at Bavai (the ancient Baijacum).
Caylus, in his valuable work Reciied cF aiiti quite s egyptierines, ctnisqiies,
grecques, romaines et gaiiloises (Paris, 1752 to 1767), gives the picture
of a toothpick and earpicker of bronze, two inches long, with the middle
part wrought in spiral torm, so as to increase the solidity ot the article,
and also to enable the hand to keep it easily tirm in all positions. It
was found in the north of France, at Bavai (the ancient Bagacum), and
forms part of the collection of M. Mignon ot Douai."^
' Antiq. du Bosphore au Musee de I'Ermitage, pi. xxx, 8 et 9 (Dictionnaire des antiquite'
grecques et romaines, par Daremberg, Saglio, etc.).
- Mittheilung. d. antiq. Gesellschaft in Zurich, xv, pi. xi, 32 (Daremberg and Saglio, ibid.)
' Caylus, vol. vi, pi. cxxx, 5.
THE ROMANS 99
nia\' be touiul m Nanous collections ot antKjUiries. In Crimea a most
elegant gold ohiect, ot (iieek make, was toimd, w liich is, h\ its two ends,
both a toothpick and an ear-picker. It belongs most probaliK to the
fourth centur\ before Christ.'
In an ob|ect found m the north ot S\\ it/erland, and coming from a
Roman military colon\- ot the times ot the Empire, the toothpick and
ear-picker are joined at one ot their ends, bv a pivot, to other toilet
articles.
Fig. 29
A metal toothpick and ear-picker joined to other toilet articles. An object found in
Switzerland, in the ancient seat ot a Roman military colony.
Fig. ?o
An ancient toothpick and ear-picker of bronze, found m the north ot trance,
at Bavai (the ancient Baijacum).
Caylus, in his valuable work Reciied cF aiiti quite s egyptierines, ctnisqiies,
grecques, romaines et gaiiloises (Paris, 1752 to 1767), gives the picture
of a toothpick and earpicker of bronze, two inches long, with the middle
part wrought in spiral torm, so as to increase the solidity ot the article,
and also to enable the hand to keep it easily tirm in all positions. It
was found in the north of France, at Bavai (the ancient Bagacum), and
forms part of the collection of M. Mignon ot Douai."^
' Antiq. du Bosphore au Musee de I'Ermitage, pi. xxx, 8 et 9 (Dictionnaire des antiquite'
grecques et romaines, par Daremberg, Saglio, etc.).
- Mittheilung. d. antiq. Gesellschaft in Zurich, xv, pi. xi, 32 (Daremberg and Saglio, ibid.)
' Caylus, vol. vi, pi. cxxx, 5.
