beaker
- Museum number
- 1937,1211.225
- Description
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Grey stoneware beaker; wheel-thrown; wet-smoothed streaky slip on interior; broken.
- Production date
- 2400BC-2200BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4.625 inches
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Height: 4.50 inches
- Curator's comments
- A highly accomplished stoneware ceramic industry developed out of the Ninevite 5 tradition in northern Mesopotamia. Jars, bowls and streaky self-slipped beakers were thrown on a fast wheel from very plastic clays and fired at higher temperatures of around 950-1050 C, producing metallic-looking vessels.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2001 8 Nov-2001 24 Mar, London, BM, Agatha Christie and Archaeology
1997 Jul-31 Dec, BM exhibition: "Pottery in the Making", Museum of Mankind
- Condition
- Broken.
- Acquisition date
- 1937
- Acquisition notes
- Reference in register to "Iraq (1947) pp.177-9.
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1937,1211.225