Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1924.1117 A-B: 'Two pottery incense burners.'
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Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Collected and donated by Dr Cunnington.

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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1924.1117 A-B: 'Two pottery vessels - used for burning incense in the chambers of the dead - also for burning sweet herbs in a room'.
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Author: Jazmin Hundal

Context (Amendments / updates)
Some of the cards for the Cunnington Gift provide the provenance as Libya; Siwa Oasis is in Egypt but on the border with Libya.
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Author: Jazmin Hundal

Context (Related Documents)
There are two cards stapled together here bearing different information. The more recent card (1) describes the vessels as modern and from Egypt. The older card (2) has the location marked as Sudan Some of the cards for the Cunnington Gift give the provenance as Libya, Siwa Oasis is in Egypt but on the border with Libya.
Event Date 31/7/1991
Author: Jazmin Hundal

Description (Physical description)
Ceramic incense burner. Comprises of a wide bowl with three pillars, which connect to a smaller bowl above.; circular perforation present in smaller bowl. One handle and two small protrusions present around rim of larger bowl; foot ring attached to base. Darkened areas present on interiors of bowls.
Event Date 15/11/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Report of the Board of Archaeological and Anthropological Studies (1925) [for the Academic year 1923-24], p. 2 notes incorrectly that the 'ethnographical series, Siwa, (24.115-1128)' were given by the Curator Mr Louis C.G. Clarke.
While Clarke's name has been added to the 1924 register entry it has subsequently been crossed out, with ditto marks indicating the material was given by the proceeding donor, Dr C. Willett Cunnington, who presented a series of archaeological stone tools 'from the Oasis of Siwa'.
Event Date 19/8/2022
Author: rachel hand