Cosmetics and tattoos: or how to become another
Disciplines
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Analyses and research on literary texts, iconography and archaeological remnants suggest that, far from being a minor or frivolous element, cosmetics are in Mésopotamia as much related to personality as to seduction (for cosmetics I mean any temporary colouring, powder, oil, lotion applied to the skin). Male-boiled kassite earth found in Dur Kurigalzu. Second half of the second mill. All, men, women and children were grabbing with a monk...