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Object Type
Museum number: 1867,0729.136
Description: Brass pail, cylindrical with a long-looped faceted handle; punched frieze of deer-hunt among trees; dog; leopard; runic inscription.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 6thC
Production place: Made in: Mediterranean (eastern Mediterranean)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Chessell Down, grave 45
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 17.70 centimetres (max); Height: 11.50 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Craddock, La Niece & Hook 1998 / Brass in the medieval Islamic world (p.89, table 1); Pitarakis 2016 / Le bain des femmes et la santé dans l'antiquité tardive: À propos de la situle en alliage cuivreux du Musée Rezan Has à Istanbul (10)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2007-2008 07 Feb-15 Jan, Birmingham, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, 'Encounters: Travel and Money in the Byzantine World'
Subjects: dog; plant; leaf; tree/bush
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1867
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1867,0729.136

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