bowl
- Museum number
- 128743
- Description
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Painted pottery bowl; reddish; painted in red-brown; linear decoration inside and out; handmade.
- Production date
- 5500BC-4500BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 8.63 inches
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Height: 3 inches
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
G52/IRAN/1, from official opening 17/11/95.
G49/IRAN/1, 16 Jun-23 Dec 1994.
Iranian Room [IR], wall-case [WC] 18/3, Jul 1975-ca 1990.
- Acquisition date
- 1936
- Acquisition notes
- The acquisition of this collection was highlighted in the 'Annual Report of the General Progress of the Museums for the year 1936' (BM BM (Natural History) 1937, pp. 10-11) as "A large collection of pottery, terracotta figurines, bronzes, seals and amulets, mainly from Persia, varying in date from before 3000 B.C., and for the most part from known sites; specially selected to illustrate periods not hitherto represented, or inadequately represented, in the collection".
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 128743
- Registration number
- 1936,0613.128