Bucket-shaped marble mortar with two lugs on rim

Made:
3000-500

Bucket-shaped marble mortar with two lugs on rim, probably Egyptian 3000BC-500, two ceramic grinding ends of European pestles, 1701-1900

Details

Category:
Classical & Medieval Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A658866
Materials:
marble and pottery
Measurements:
mortar: height 110 mm
rim: depth 150 mm
base: diameter 70 mm
pestle end, max: length 67 mm
pestle end, max: diameter 40 mm
type:
mortars and pestles

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