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fire/fire-lighting equipment
(?)
;
arms equipment
(?)
Object Type
fire/fire-lighting equipment
(?)
arms equipment
(?)
Museum number
EA78351
Description
Five yellow cylinders and some small chips of moulded sulpher, possibly for fire-lighting or for the manufacture of gunpowder. There are striations on some of the cylinders and some have dark spots.
Cultures/periods
Post-Christian
Ottoman dynasty
(?)
Production date
1700-1800
(?)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Kulubnarti
, 21-S-2 House D3 Room 2-1 Floor
Materials
sulphur
Technique
mould-made
(?)
Dimensions
Length:
55 millimetres
(largest fragment)
Thickness:
16 millimetres
(largest fragment)
Width:
20 millimetres
(largest fragment)
Bibliographic references
Adams & Adams 1998 / Kulubnarti II, The Artifactual Remains
(p. 58, 120)
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Dr William Yewdale Adams
Donated by:
W S Webb Museum of Anthropology (University of Kentucky)
Acquisition date
2005
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA78351
Registration number
2005,0401.781
Additional IDs
Excavation/small finds number:
85.2.853
(excavation object cat. no.)