lime-dipper
- Museum number
- Am1898,0526.4
- Description
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Lime-dipper, probably used to extract the lime from a gold flask. It is made of gold or tumbaga by lost-wax casting in the form of a long pin with a bell at the upper end. Some of these dippers were also hammered.
- Production date
- 200BC-1200
- Dimensions
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Length: 32.50 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1996, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 1), 'Gilded Image'
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1898,0526.4
