bowl
- Museum number
- 134896
- Description
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Fragment of glass bowl; sharp rim, slightly convex sides, deep body; raised band, 1.4 cm wide, around the exterior below the rim, and decorated with a diamond pattern formed by diagonal cut grooves; colourless with greenish tinge; cast, cut, ground, polished; surface pitted and iridescent; elongated weathering fissures.
- Production date
- 8thC BC-7thC BC
- Dimensions
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Thickness: 0.25 - 0.45 centimetres
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Height: 4.70 centimetres
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Width: 4 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- According to the catalogue this fragment is from the same vessel as 1966,1217.4 BM.134896, or from an almost identical bowl.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fragment; surface pitted and iridescent; elongated weathering fissures.
- Acquisition date
- 1966
- Acquisition notes
- Acquisition noted in the 'British Museum Quarterly' 32 (1967/68), p.58.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 134896
- Registration number
- 1966,1217.4
- Additional IDs
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Excavation/small finds number: ND.10249 (excavation number)
