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
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)
Catalogue of Western Asiatic glass in the British Museum Catalogue of Western Asiatic glass in the British Museum 1985 Barag, Dan (none)
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