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Calcite jar
Jar, broad shouldered.
Height: 9.8 cm
Width: 12.85 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1902) by Egyptian Research Account
Second Dynasty
Third Dynasty
Early Dynastic Period
Old Kingdom
-2686
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-2613
Rim Diameter 6.55 cm
stone Calcite
Accession number: E.10.1902
Primary reference Number: 50396
Oldadmincategory: S
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Calcite jar" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/50396 Accessed: 2023-03-27 14:03:17
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/50396
|title=Calcite jar
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-27 14:03:17|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-50396
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant5/E_10_1902_281_29.jpg"
alt="Calcite jar"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Calcite jar</figcaption>
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Accession Number: E.13.1950
Accession Number: E.266.1939
Accession Number: E.12.1950
Accession Number: E.34.1912
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