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• Object type

  • jar

• Museum number

  91461

• Description

  Glass jar; colourless with light green tinge; broad, slightly convex rim; very short and broad neck; globular body with low disc base; two solid "duck-head" handles at central section of body; vertical medial ridges along handles; concentric grinding marks on interior from neck to base; slightly convex interior bottom of base; traces of thin vertical polishing marks near one of the handles; small bubbles throughout fabric; cast, then ground and polished.

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• Culture/period

  • Phoenician (?)
  • Neo-Assyrian (?)

• Date

  • 8thC BC-7thC BC

• Findspot

  • Excavated/Findspot: Nimrud (?)
  • (Asia,Middle East,Iraq,North Iraq,Nimrud)

• Materials

  • glass (colourless with light greenish tinge)

• Technique

  • polished
  • ground
  • cast

• Dimensions

  • Height: 7.4 centimetres
  • Diameter: 8 centimetres
  • Diameter: 5.2 centimetres (rim)
  • Diameter: 5.4 centimetres (base)
  • Diameter: 4.8 centimetres (neck)
  • Thickness: 0.7 centimetres
  • Width: 10 centimetres (with handles)
  • Weight: 447 grammes

• Curator's comments

  According to Barag (Catalogue of Western Asiatic Glass I, pp. 61-62) there is no evidence that this does come from Nimrud although it certainly comes from Mesopotamia.

• Bibliography

  • Barag 1985a 27; pp. 61-62, fig. 2, pl. 3, col. pl. B

• Location

  Not on display

• Exhibition history

  Exhibited:

  2007-2008 6 Oct-20 Apr, Paris, L'Institut du Monde Arabe, 'Phoenicians and the Mediterranean'.

  Assyrian & Babylonian Rooms, ca 1900, No. 726.

• Condition

  Exterior covered with brownish weathering, partially flaked to reveal iridescent layer beneath; missing small chip to rim; part of rim repaired.

• Acquisition name

  • Excavated by: Sir Austen Henry Layard

• Department

  Middle East

• BM/Big number

  91461

• Registration number

  N.2071

• Additional IDs

  • BM.12084