lime-dipper
- Museum number
- Am1904,0718.2
- Description
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Lime-dipper made of gold by lost-wax casting. It has the form of a long pin terminated in a spherical bell at the upper end. It was probably used to extract the lime from a gold lime-flask.
- Production date
- 200BC-1200
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2 centimetres
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Length: 47 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1996, London, Museum of Mankind (Room 1), 'Gilded Image'
- Acquisition date
- 1904
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1904,0718.2
