fumigant jar
- Museum number
- 92421
- Description
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Pottery fumigant jar with rounded base and body, and tall neck; vestigial rib at the shoulder/neck junction marking the junction of the wheel-thrown neck and the coil-built body; incised cuneiform inscription around the central portion of the body; yellow clay with heavy organic temper.
- Production date
- 6thC BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10.70 centimetres (restored diameter of rim)
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Diameter: 14.50 centimetres
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Height: 17.50 centimetres (as restored)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G1/wp71/sh4)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
Enlightenment gallery, from Nov 2003.
1997 Jul-31 Dec, BM exhibition: "Pottery in the Making", Museum of Mankind.
- Condition
- Fair; neck restored in 1997.
- Acquisition date
- 1876
- Acquisition notes
- The register entry states that some of the Egibbi tablets are said to have been found in this object.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 92421
- Registration number
- 1876,1117.2388
