beaker
- Museum number
- 1924,0902.2
- Description
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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.
- Production date
- 4200BC-3800BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 8.80 centimetres (base)
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Diameter: 3.50 inches (base)
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Diameter: 17.44 centimetres (rim)
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Diameter: 6.87 inches (top)
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Height: 20.65 centimetres
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Height: 8.13 inches
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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.
- Location
- On display (G51/dc3)
- Exhibition history
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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.
- Acquisition date
- 1924
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1924,0902.2
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: AS 13919 (Louvre loan no.)
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Miscellaneous number: L.2 (BM loan number)