Toilet sets on Iberian Iron Age: General view and particular issues

Abstract

Ancient toilet sets are composed by tweezers, scalptoria, ear-picks and other small tools concerning the body grooming, linked by a ring or other union systems. In this way, mainly made in bronze, they are recorded in Iberian Peninsula through the Early and Late Iron Age. Although they could have a remote Eastern origin, toilet sets are very welknown in Celtic European Archaeology, but the Iberian items have been scarcely considered. All the Spanish and Portuguese archaeological evidence published so far is ranged in this paper. At the same time, their particularities related with the different cultural aristocratic communities living in Iberian Iron Age (Phoenician, Orientalizing, Iberian, Celtiberian…) which used to use this kind of goods are studied.