Stone Jar
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Apr 1970
name: label: Donor Name
content: General Services Administration
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Measurements approximate. Weight said to be 1800 lbs. A rough monolithic, granite [sic] jar. Little or no traces remain on the surface of method of shaping. Greatest diameter at center; not round in horizontal outline, slopes inward to top. Cavity cut in from top, ca. 26.0 cm. in diameter and at least 80.0 cm. deep. This is partially filled with dirt which has not been removed."
label: Notes
content: Pod 4 pallet worksheet lists dimensions of object as L. 53 in. x W. 30 in. x H. 30 in. Object weight is 2110 lbs. Asbestos decontamination of jar 12/1994; two bags of material/dirt? from object are stored with the object with labels that the contents are still asbestos contaminated.
label: Notes
content: The upper part of jar was exposed to weathering and has lichens on it.
label: Notes
content: Lia Genovese, a PhD Candidate in the Art & Archaeology Department, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, says "The rim is perfectly flat and my guess is that the jar may have been removed from present-day Site 1, a field of 334 units, most of which have a flat rim just like the unit at the Smithsonian."
label: Notes
content: Per Janet G. Douglas, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, the material is sandstone (not granite as originally catalogued).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Sep 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plain Of Jars, Tran-Ninh Plateau (Xiangkhoang / Xiengkhuang Plateau), Laos, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Megalithic (Dorg-San?) Culture Of S.E. Asia (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 288898
label: USNM Number
content: A459245-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jar
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 1.3 m
label: Width - Object
content: 0.8 m
label: Height - Object
content: 0.8 m