Fig. 6-2. Perfume and cosmetics.
E. Compounding ointments and perfumes. Assistants crush dried herbs with pestle and mortar (1,2,3,4). The crushed herbs are added to a bowl of molten fat, stirred (5) and shaped into balls upon cooling (6). Special jars probably containing spiced wine, a useful solvent because of its alcohol content is siphoned and filtered into a bowl (7). At extreme left an assistant shapes a piece of wood beneath a bowl heaped with unguents (8). Tomb at Thebes, ca. 1500 BCE.
Source: Singer et al., 1954, Fig. 190.