baby-rattle
- Museum number
- 1814,0704.489
- Description
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Pottery rattle in the form of a pig, with a serrated ridge along the back; the snout is broken; red-brown clay with green, blue and yellow glass inserts each side of the ridge.
- Production date
- 1stC-2ndC
- Dimensions
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Height: 5.80 centimetres
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Length: 9.20 centimetres (max)
- Curator's comments
- See Buchholz 1966, 143 no. 2 and passim; on the technique see Mazard 1879, 65.
Bibliography:
Buchholz H.-G. 1966/67, 'Tönerne Rasseln aus Zypern', AA 1966, 140-51.
Mazard H. 1879, Céramique. De la conaissance par les anciens des glaçures plombifères relevé des terre cuites antiques revetues de glaçures plombifères, exitent dans les divers musées et collections, Paris.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1814,0704.489
