incense-burner
- Museum number
- 124277
- Description
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Hexagonal copper alloy incense burner; cast, exterior and top of rim filed; everted ledge rim; flat bottom; vertical sides; three feet; three equally spaced circular loops on the rim through which were originally passed chains for suspension.
- Production date
- 5thC-6thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 8.10 - 9.20 centimetres
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Height: 1.20 centimetres (foot)
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Height: 5.71 centimetres
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Weight: 239.70 grammes
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Volume: 100 millilitres
- Curator's comments
- Registered as "bronze vase for suspension (brazier?)", later annotated "Hexagonal lamp". Originally held and gently swung in the right hand by a priest: for a representation of this see the mosaic of Justinian and his retinue in the church of San Vitale at Ravenna. A cylindrical ribbed incense-burner with three feet and remains of the chain handle was excavated at Susa and is exhibited in the National Museum, Tehran (inv. nr. 7652; mis-identified as "Seleucid" on the exhibition label, 2000; this does not appear in the MDAP and appears to be unpublished).
- Location
- On display (G52/dc7)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
G52/IRAN/22/18, from official opening 17/11/95-18 Aug 2005.
- Condition
- One side of the rim broken off in antiquity; one foot partly broken; missing the suspension chains; interior deliberately left uncleaned.
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 124277
- Registration number
- 1932,1212.7
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 64 (marked on paper label)