beaker

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Object Type
Museum number: 1924,0902.2
Description: Painted pottery beaker; tall and thin walled buff clay; handmade; dark brown matt painted decoration of vertical stacked triangles enclosed within rectangular frames, zigzags and rows of lozenges; horizontal row of long-necked birds under rim, repeated in sections separated by rows of triangles; restored from sherds.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 4200BC-3800BC
Production place: Made in: Susa
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Susa, Prehistoric Cemetery
Materials
Technique: painted; handmade
Dimensions: Diameter: 8.80 centimetres (base); Diameter: 3.50 inches (base); Diameter: 17.44 centimetres (rim); Diameter: 6.87 inches (top); Height: 20.65 centimetres; Height: 8.13 inches; Volume: 246 millilitres
Curator's comments: Published: ATBM 7; Munsterberg 1998, 15. Comparanda: MDP 13 (1912), pls VI: 4, 5, VIII: 1, 4, 7, IX: 5, 9, X: 1.
Bibliographic references: Curtis 1989a / Ancient Persia (p. 7, fig. 3); Curtis 2000a / Ancient Persia (p. 8, fig. 3)
Location: On display (G51/dc3)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2006 13 Apr-Dec BM, G2/172 1995-2005 17 Nov-5 Dec BM, G52/IRAN/1/18, from official opening 1994 16 Jun-23 Dec BM, G49/IRAN/11 1931 Jan-Feb, London, Royal Academy, 'Persian Art'
Condition: Restored from sherds.
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1924
Department: Middle East
Registration number: 1924,0902.2
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: AS 13919 (Louvre loan no.); Miscellaneous number: L.2 (BM loan number)
Conservation: Treatment: 10 May 1995; Treatment: 29 Mar 2006

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