Canister with geometric motif
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Title
Canister with geometric motif
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Associated place
Balochistan province (place of creation)Nal (possible) (possible place of creation) -
Date
3rd millennium BC (3000 - 2001 BC) -
Material and technique
earthenware, with painted polychrome decoration
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Object type
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Dimensions
8.9 cm (height)
15.3 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1945.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 12 | India to AD 600 -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN1945.4
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
Further reading
Ahuja, Naman, Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2018), no. 9.1
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