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bowl
Object Type
bowl
Museum number
123037
Description
Carved light grey chlorite bowl; slightly rounded base; short, possibly re-worked, spout; rim incised with a series of nicks along the top; single row of centrally-dotted double concentric circles incised between roughly horizontal incised lines below rim on the exterior; almost complete; old damage to rim; some areas of old vertical abrasion immediately below the rim on exterior.
Cultures/periods
Bronze Age
Production date
1850BC-1650BC
Production place
Made in:
Oman
(?)
Made in:
Iran
(?)
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Sir Leonard Woolley
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Ur (historic - city)
, site A.H., grave 182
Materials
chlorite
Technique
carved
incised
Dimensions
Diameter:
11.50 - 11.80 centimetres
(approx rim diameter)
Height:
4.80 centimetres
Weight:
546.50 grammes
Thickness:
0.40 centimetres
(at the rim)
Volume:
310 millilitres
Bibliographic references
Woolley & Mallowan 1976a / The Old Babylonian period
(pp.13, 12 1-2, 199, 243-44, pls 62.100 = stone vessel type 6)
(wrongly designated stone vessel type 5 on p. 185 and grave re-numbered as L/G 51)
Reade & Searight 2001a / Arabian softstone vessels from Iraq in the British Museum
(pp.163-64, no. 10)
(different dimensions given)
Location
On display
(G52/dc1)
Condition
Almost complete.
Acquisition name
Division of Finds:
Department of Antiquities of Iraq
Acquisition date
1931
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
123037
Registration number
1931,1010.105
Additional IDs
Excavation/small finds number:
U.16723
(excavation number)
Conservation
Treatment
: 07 Dec 2006