bowl
- Museum number
- 134373
- Description
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Hemispherical bowl; greenish-yellow glass; blown; cold-worked to create 4 rows of deep circular cut facets, deepest along the bottom row; single deep concave facet on the base, thus creating a secure resting dimension and removing any presumed pontil mark; 7 facets around lowest row; 15 around each of the other rows.
- Production date
- 6thC-7thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10.20 - 10.30 centimetres (rim, exterior)
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Diameter: 9.70 - 9.80 centimetres (rim, interior)
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Diameter: 3.30 centimetres (base)
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Diameter: 0.35 centimetres (depth of facet on base)
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Diameter: 0.25 centimetres (depth of facets in bottom row)
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Diameter: 0.15 centimetres (depth of facets in second row)
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Diameter: 0.15 centimetres (depth of facets in third row)
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Diameter: 0.15 centimetres (depth of facets in top row)
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Height: 6.55 centimetres (interior)
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Height: 7.60 centimetres
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Weight: 213.50 grammes
- Curator's comments
- Probably used as a drinking bowl.
- Location
- On display (G52/dc7)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006 13 Apr-Dec, BM, G2/168
1995-2005 17 Nov-15 Dec, BM, G52/IRAN/26
1994 16 Jun-23 Dec, BM, G49/IRAN/26/20
1975-ca 1990 Jul-, BM, Iranian Room [IR], case ?, no. 4
- Condition
- Surfaces uncleaned and covered with light greyish deposit which apparently results from burial conditions; flaking original dark weathered layer, re-consolidated in 2004 and some of the burial deposit removed from exterior and from a test area on the interior.
- Acquisition date
- 1964
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 134373
- Registration number
- 1964,0415.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: G734 D.C. (possible stock label, attached to object)
