Cooking Pot

29-218-3

From: Holland

Curatorial Section: European

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Object Number 29-218-3
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Early Iron Age | Hallstatt Culture
Provenience Holland
Period Early Iron Age | Hallstatt Period
Date Made 700-450 BCE
Section European
Materials Ceramic
Technique Handmade
Description

Schragandurn (Urn with bevelled rim) of the Early Iron Age (Leiden). Handmade. Broken, some pieces missing, surface scratching and crackling. Too warped to be mended. Flattened base, body rises obliquely to round shoulder, wide mouth, erect rim. Coarse clay with iron and other inclusions. Unevenly fired dark gray at core, surface of interior mottled buff and gray. Surface of exterior thinly slipped and burnished to yellow color.

Height 18.1 cm
Credit Line Exchange with the Rijksmuseum Van Oudheden te Leiden, 1912
Other Number Leiden GL.89 - Collector Number

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