Grey stone mortar and pestle

Grey stone mortar and pestle, mortar is circular with rounded base and shallow circular grinding depression, pestle a tapering cylinder with rounded ends, no production details

Details

Category:: Pharmacy-ware

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A658871

Materials:: stone

Measurements:: mortar: height 87 mm
mortar: diameter 137 mm
pestle: length 135 mm
pestle, max.: diameter 52 mm

type:: mortars and pestles

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