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FRAGMENTARY SECTION OF A SMALL JAR
Turned alabaster
Height: 14.5cm
Museum number: M863
On display: Dome Area
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
Half of a small, ovoid alabaster jar with rounded lip. The material is cut so that the strata of the grain form a series of ring bands about the body.
An article of either household or more likely, from the material, funerary use.
An article of either household or more likely, from the material, funerary use.
Unrecorded.
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