altar

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Object Type
Museum number: 2010,5001.4
Description: Fragment of a small limestone portable altar or incense burning table, approximately ¼ of which survives; square block from which a one inch deep depression has been cut with a circular drill or saw; projections on the surviving corner and the surviving side, probably midway; circular socket in the underside, perhaps for fitting unto a stand.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 50BC-300
Production place: Made in: Cyprus (?)
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum; Excavated by: George Gordon Hake
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Salamis (Cyprus)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 6.50 centimetres; Length: 10.40 millimetres (surviving portion)
Curator's comments: A partly illegible three digit number, the first a ‘4’, written in blue pencil has been obscured by the V&A registration number. See D. Bailey, 'Lamps in the Victoria & Albert Museum', Opuscula Atheniensia VI (1965), 5-13 for details of the Hake-Kitchener excavations.
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1980 (?)
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 2010,5001.4
Additional IDs: Previous owner/ex-collection number: 418-1883 (V&A number)

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