16330 | 1931,1010.213
| Description (Catalog Card): | Miniature vase. Blue glass. With 2 handles. Part of one handle and bottom of vase missing. [drawing 1:1]3 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | Kassite Grave. A.H |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Glass4 |
| U Number: | 16330 |
| Object Type: | Vessels/Containers >> Closed Forms >> Jars |
| Season Number: | 09: 1930-1931 |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Culture/Period: | Kassite 1 |
| Culture/Period: | Achaemenid Empire (Persian) 2 |
| Description (Modern): | Glass jar, resembles a small amphora, with flat thickened rim, cylindrical neck and conical body; two handles, made from a bichrome twist, from the rim to the shoulder; space inside body is cylindrical; yellow thread wound around the neck and another around the upper part of the body; rod-formed; body faded and turned greenish-grey (originally perhaps blue?); yellow thread faded; original colour of the handles may have been blue and yellow; the base and most of one handle missing, and a chip off the rim. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Glass and Related Material |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1931,1010.213 |
| Measurement (Height): | 3.85 cm |
| Measurement (Diameter): | 1.05 cm |
| Measurement (Diameter): | 1.85 cm |
| [1] Reputedly found in a Kassite grave, the form though resembles a much later object. |
| [2] Argued to be 4th or 3rd centuries BC by Barag (1985, 79) |
| [3] Woolley's description |
| [4] Material as described by Woolley |
| [5] Measured at British Museum, 2015. |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Kassite Grave | (none) | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catalogue of Western Asiatic glass in the British Museum | Catalogue of Western Asiatic glass in the British Museum | 1985 | Barag, Dan | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:65 Page:39 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:65 Page:39 | (none) |
- 2 Media