Six cups, pottery. Six small, handle-less cups which form a set with 1979.168. Roughly made, three green, three brown, with unglazed bases. Known colloquially as the ‘calves’.
cups (food service)
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saddle model (animal furniture)
object | nn11104
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playing card
object | 99.297iii.82
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ore (sample (metalworking: smelting))
object | 7.7.59/39
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lamp (ritual & belief: religious buildings & furnishings); oil container (ritual & belief: religious buildings & furnishings)
object | 25.4.60/3a
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