2471

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  • Brief description Copper alloy bowl with two curvilinear drop handles and a shallow foot-ring with three small feet attached. In a highly fragmentary and corroded condition. Full description Available dimensions: Diameter approximately 340mm Thickness of rim 1.5mm Circumference approximately 1068mm (extrapolated from diameter) Height of bowl 114mm Thickness of walls up to 1mm Width of handles (at widest) 111mm and 115mm Depth of handles 68mm and 70mm Thickness of handles 4mm (both handles) Diameter of foot-ring approximately 145mm (extrapolated from stain on base of bowl) Height of foot-ring approximately 34mm Circumference of foot-ring approximately 455mm (extrapolated from diameter) This is a large copper alloy bowl with a thin outward-turned rim and a low foot-ring with three ‘feet’ attached. It does not fit Werner’s typology of Eastern Mediterranean (‘Coptic’) bowls, although it has features found on bowls encompassed within that typology. It is a wide, spherical object with two copper alloy drop handles, each attached to the wall of the bowl by a pair of triangular-shaped lugs. The bowl and its component parts largely appear light green and yellowish-green in colour, with patches of greenish-blue and large areas of heavy greyish-brown accretions. The bowl is steep-sided and slightly globular-shaped, with a height of approximately 114mm, diameter of 340mm and circumference of approximately 1068mm (106.8cm). It has a thin rim, just over 1mm thick and with a downwards-sloping flange of 10mm. The wall of the bowl is extremely thin all over and there are no signs of decoration, either on the interior or exterior. However, a series of three concentric circles appear as a lighter discolouration on the interior wall of the bowl, 104mm from the centre of the base. These have diameters of 53mm, 63mm and 70mm respectively. Lightly incised striations are visible on one fragment of the wall, although this was not detected elsewhere macroscopically. X-radiography revealed a patch of probable repair, which itself appeared to have been repaired at a later date. The metal is of very poor quality and may provide part of the explanation for the bowl’s extremely fragmentary state. The bowl itself is green, yellowish-green and bluish-green in colour, with greyish-brown accretions and with areas of brighter greenish-blue around the foot-ring and part of the body wall. In its present condition it is extremely fragile and in many fragments, although some reconstruction work has been undertaken. For this reason, it proved impossible to weigh either the bowl or its fittings. The handles are omega-shaped, with terminals that curve slightly back upon themselves. At the mid-point of each handle there is a spherical-shaped bulge, which protrudes 6mm from the surface. Elsewhere, the thickness of the handles is a uniform 4mm and they are curvilinear in section. At widest they are 111mm and 115mm respectively, and would have hung from the side of the bowl to a depth of some 68mm and 70mm. The handles were each attached to the bowl by a pair of flat, triangular-shaped lugs, with open circles or loops protruding at 90 degrees from the centre of each triangle. Although they are now separate from the rest of the bowl, X-radiography reveals that they were originally spaced 90mm apart on opposite ends of the bowl. They protruded from the wall of the bowl just below the rim and extended vertically down the side of the bowl with the point of each triangle facing downwards. There is some evidence of solder on the wall of the bowl at the point where the lugs were originally fixed. Each pair of lugs is comprised of a larger and a smaller lug (pair one 32mm and 27mm in length; pair two 37mm and 25mm in length). Each triangle is thin (2mm or 3mm thick), as are the open circles or loops that are attached to them. All four loops are between 3mm and 4mm thick, with external diameters of between 12mm and 15mm. Their internal diameters are between 6mm and 9mm, thus permitting the curved end of each handle to ‘sit’ comfortably in the loop and to be manipulated up and down without falling out. The body of the bowl originally rested on a foot-ring, now highly corroded and separated from the rest of the bowl. There are remnants of solder on the bowl exterior in the area where the foot-ring would have been attached. The state of the foot-ring precludes identification of any possible decoration. However, three small ‘feet’ are visible. These are attached to the foot-ring at approximately equal intervals, forming a tripod on which the bowl could have rested. The tripod does not quite form an equilateral triangle – the distance between each ‘foot’ is 160mm, 160mm and 150mm respectively. Each ‘foot’ appears to be comprised of two open circles joined so as to form a figure-of-eight (turned horizontal). A hemispherical, ovoid ‘shoe’, with dimensions of approximately 18mm by 13mm, is fixed immediately beneath this figure-of-eight at its central point. The base of each shoe has a small depression in it. High corrosion levels made it impossible to measure the thickness of the foot-ring. Substantial fragments of wood and possibly other organic material were found adhering to the area beneath and around the foot-ring. Much of this is preserved in situ. There were no other associated finds.
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