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Object type
Museum number
91461
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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
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Date
- 8thC BC-7thC BC
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Findspot
- Excavated/Findspot: Nimrud (?)
- (Asia,Middle East,Iraq,North Iraq,Nimrud)
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Materials
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Technique
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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
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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.
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Bibliography
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Location
Not on display
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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.
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Condition
Exterior covered with brownish weathering, partially flaked to reveal iridescent layer beneath; missing small chip to rim; part of rim repaired.
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Acquisition name
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Department
Middle East
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BM/Big number
91461
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Registration number
N.2071
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Additional IDs
- BM.12084
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