artefact;
vessel(?)
- Description
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Fragmentary tubular artefact in calcite, with narrow debossed band around middle of body and drilled; smoothed external surface; might belong to the neck of a closed vessel.
- Production date
- 550 BC - 450 BC (maybe)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2 centimetres
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Height: 3.50 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Object owned and held by Redpath Museum, Montreal. This record is included in the British Museum database as part of the Museum’s Naukratis Project, a research collaboration that aims to virtually re-unite finds from the ancient port city of Naukratis, now distributed over 80 museums worldwide.
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Naukratis provided a wide range of vessels in calcite, chiefly alabastra. A few other shapes, often original such as this specimen, were also collected. Evidence for a local production of calcite vessels is given by the discovery of “many thousands of alabaster drill cores from tubular drilling” as well as unfinished vessels in the same material found in the temenos of Apollo in 1885, between the temple and the north-west corner of the temenos (Petrie 1886, 15). Most of these vessels should be dated to the second half of the 6th or latest first half of the 5th century BC. Maybe this element originated from this context.
Petrie, W. M. F. 1886, Naukratis. Part I., 1884-5 (Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 3), London.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good
- Department
- External
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 2488.02 (Accession Number)