Bowl
Bowl
7th century (made)
7th century (made)
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| Place of origin |
The bowl is decorated on the sides with a series of roundels outlined by broad plain borders, containing alternately a small equal-armed cross or a stylised floral device; in the intervening spaces a trilobed floral device. on one side the roundels are interrupted by a rectangular panel from which a small handle juts out; the handle is surrounded by an oval border enclosing to the left and right of the handle a coarse, trilobed device.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Bowl (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Steatite |
| Brief description | Bowl, steatite, Nubian or Mesopotamian, 7th or 8th century |
| Physical description | The bowl is decorated on the sides with a series of roundels outlined by broad plain borders, containing alternately a small equal-armed cross or a stylised floral device; in the intervening spaces a trilobed floral device. on one side the roundels are interrupted by a rectangular panel from which a small handle juts out; the handle is surrounded by an oval border enclosing to the left and right of the handle a coarse, trilobed device. |
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| Object history | Given by Sir Leigh Ashton, F.S.A., London, in 1958. Ashton said that he acquired the bowl in Mesopotamia, but objects for comparison with a known Mesopotamian provenance are difficult to find. The bowl, on the other hand, is not dissimilar in texture and coarseness of style to a steatite oval box, found in Nubia, and dating probably to the 7th or 8th century. This type of object might have been made at almost any time in a Christian community in the Near East, and it seems hardly likely the bowl is of much earlier than from the 7th or 8th century. |
| Production | 7th or 8th century |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | A.9-1958 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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