- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery incense burner with incense. Round bowl with four legs attached to a round base. Linear and geometric patterns are painted on with red pigment. [AF [EFCF project] 13/8/2019]
- Long description
- Pottery incense burner with incense. Round bowl with four legs attached to a round base. Linear and geometric patterns are painted on with red pigment. Unglazed earthenware. On the inner rim of the bowl, in line with the four legs are 4 semicircular lips, each with two round perforated holes. Inside the bowl was an incense mixture of amber-coloured resin, a stone and plant matter. [AF [EFCF project] 13/8/2019]
- Cultural groups
- Berber
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1989
- Date collected
- 1989
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 03/03/2016
- Materials and processes
- Material Clay, Material Pigment, Material Resin Plant, Process Handbuilt, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Painted, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 120 mm, Height: max 110 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2018.37.64
- Associated publications
- Balfour-Paul, Jenny, Indigo in the Arab World, Routledge, 1997 [AF [EFCF project] 23/8/2019] Balfour-Paul, Jenny, Indigo: Egyptian Mummies to Blue Jeans by , British Museum Press, 1998 [AF [EFCF project] 23/8/2019]
Search terms: Ritual and Ceremonial, Pottery, Ceremonial Object, Incense-burner, Incense