Metal vase or flask. Flared rim and rounded base with flat bottom. Incised with geometric shapes, lion, elephant and figures. [RM [OPS move] 25/7/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Metal vase or flask. Flared rim and rounded base with flat bottom. Incised with geometric shapes, lion, elephant and figures. [RM [OPS move] 25/7/2016]
Long description: .17 Metal vase or flask with short neck, flared rim and rounded base with flat bottom. The whole of the outside of the object has incised line decoration of geometric shapes, lion, elephant and figures.
Geographical reference: Ethiopia
Africa > Eastern Africa > Ethiopia
Person: Field collector Wilfred Patrick Thesiger; PRM source Wilfred Patrick Thesiger; PRM source Alex Maitland
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1998
Date collected: By 1998
Acquisition information: Donated: 1998
Materials and processes: Material Silver Metal, Process Decorated, Process Incised
Dimensions: Diameter: max 89 mm, Height: max 130 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1998.26.17
Research and responses: For a brief account of the collections donated to the PRM by Wilfred Thiesiger, see 'An Incidental Collection: Objects Donated by Wilfred Thesiger to the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Jeremy Coote, in Wilfred Thesiger in Africa, edited by Christopher Morton and Philip N. Grover (London: Harper Press, 2010), pp. 116-26. [JC 21 12 2010]

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