October 2010, Issue 9
Dollhouse Tourism
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When the doll was found she still wore one jewel, a ring with a key set on her right hand's thumb. Her ears were pierced, proving that she wore earrings probably the two perforated pearls found in the grave. Also found were two small golden circlets kept together by a golden ring: most likely a light armlet. Small prisms of pierced green paste and little golden spirals were probably all that remained of her rings.
Her hairdressing was beautiful, but it could never have been arranged combing her hairs with the two little combs contained in the jewel-case, one of which
had even lost some teeth. The fact is that the dolls' hair was like the rest of her: carved, solid ivory. It was the color beloved by girls of the time: golden blond. Since the comb's teeth were broken, archeologists alleged that the girl had other dolls, ragdolls, maybe, with wigs made by threads that could have been very amusing to comb; very simple dolls that were certainly reduced to sediment in the water-filled coffin.
Of course Crepereia's ivory doll's hair was in perfect order and styled in the fashion of Ancient Rome. Moreover, she was extremely well made and, astonishingly enough, jointed! She could turn her head and her arms and legs were jointed in two parts each, with all those parts connected by ivory pins and those pins set perfectly so as to not protrude from the surface.
Obviously besides Crepereia's doll there were others, and some of them even had real jewels - like the one found in the tomb of the Vestal Cossinia. As Cossinia lived from the end of the 2nd century A.D., her doll was shaped as a girl of that time.
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