Cosmetic bottle with a trapezoidal shape and a cylindrical neck. It is incised on two sides with hatched triangles and on the other two with zigzag lines. Made of chlorite. Bactria, 3rd millennium BC. H: 6,9cm Cracks. Bibliography : - Funerary material from southern Bactria of the Bronze Age. M-H Pottier. Collection of M. Carbonnel. Jean-Pierre Carbonnel (1937-2002). Knight of the Legion of Honour Eminent scientist, he devoted his career to research in the field of geology and hydrology, in South-East Asia as well as in Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In 1973, he was appointed Director of the permanent scientific mission of the C.N.R.S. in Afghanistan, where he remained until 1979. It was then that he acquired the numerous pieces that constitute his collection of Bactrian objects.
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Cosmetic bottle with a trapezoidal shape and a cylindrical neck. It is incised on two sides with hatched triangles and on the other two with zigzag lines.
Made of chlorite.
Bactria, 3rd millennium BC.
H: 6,9cm
Cracks.
Bibliography :
- Funerary material from southern Bactria of the Bronze Age. M-H Pottier.
Collection of M. Carbonnel.
Jean-Pierre Carbonnel (1937-2002).
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Eminent scientist, he devoted his career to research in the field of geology and hydrology, in South-East Asia as well as in Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
In 1973, he was appointed Director of the permanent scientific mission of the C.N.R.S. in Afghanistan, where he remained until 1979. It was then that he acquired the numerous pieces that constitute his collection of Bactrian objects.
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