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The '''mirror and comb''' is a [[Picts|Pictish]] symbol of uncertain meaning,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Forsyth|first=Katherine|date=1995|title=Some thoughts on Pictish symbols as a formal writing system.|url=https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/3447/1/pictish_symbols_forsyth.pdf|website=University of Glasgow}}</ref> found on Class I and Class II [[Pictish stones]].<ref name="Fraser">{{citation |
The '''mirror and comb''' is a [[Picts|Pictish]] symbol of uncertain meaning,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Forsyth|first=Katherine|date=1995|title=Some thoughts on Pictish symbols as a formal writing system.|url=https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/3447/1/pictish_symbols_forsyth.pdf|website=University of Glasgow}}</ref> found on Class I and Class II [[Pictish stones]].<ref name="Fraser">{{citation |
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Revision as of 23:16, 11 April 2022
The mirror and comb is a Pictish symbol of uncertain meaning,[1] found on Class I and Class II Pictish stones.[2] The symbol is found in various combinations with other symbols, notably with the double disc and z-rod.
The mirror and comb have been found carved into slabs near the burial of men and at least one woman.[3] Joanna Close-Brookes, writing in 1981, suggested that the presence of the mirror and comb on a burial stone indicated societal rank, discounting earlier hypothesis that it indicated wealth.[3]
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References
- ^ Forsyth, Katherine (1995). "Some thoughts on Pictish symbols as a formal writing system" (PDF). University of Glasgow.
- ^ Fraser, Iain (2008), The Pictish Symbol Stones of Scotland, Edinburgh: Royal Commission on the Ancienct and Historic Monuments of Scotland
- ^ a b Close-Brooks, Joanna (1981). "Excavations [of a Pictish burial and medieval kiln] in the Dairy Park, Dunrobin, Sutherland, 1977". Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 110: 328–345. ISSN 2056-743X.