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.

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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)
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