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anklet(?); ingot(?)

Object Type: anklet (?); ingot (?)
Museum number: 91180
Description: Copper alloy ring ingot (?) or anklet (?); circular with plain, overlapping terminals; cast; traces of organic material probably matting in the corrosion products.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 18thC BC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Sifr (Kutalla)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 15.55 centimetres; Weight: 1110 grammes; Thickness: 15.24 centimetres
Curator's comments: One side has been stripped of corrosion presumably for old display.
Bibliographic references: Moorey P R S 1971a / The Loftus hoard of Old Babylonian tools from Tell Sifr in Iraq (p.79 no.69; pl. XXIII no.69); Loftus W K 1857a / Travels and researches in Chaldaea and Susiana; with an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, Shush, "Shushan the palace" of Esther, in 1849-52 (pp.268-9)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 91180
Registration number: 1856,0903.22