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Artifact Name	Brass Mortar
Type of Object	Mortar
Date of Manufacture	1700-1799
Time Period	Eighteenth century
Dimensions	10 cm. x 14.5 cm. x 14.5 cm.
Physical Details	Heavy hand-cast brass mortar with bead and crescent ornamentation. The bottom of the mortar is slighly uneven, as are the exterior ornamental details. The outside has four columns of four-ranked bead details, and four columns of roughly butterly-shaped opposing crescent and bar patterns, all somewhat rough-hewn. The top of the barrel has a protruding lip which extends approximately 40 degrees from the core of the mortar, and then folds into a steeply vertical drop to a rounded base. The brass on the interior is slighly pockmarked. There is a strip of clear tape affixed to the top of the mortar with some writing in pencil: "Jan 5, 1966 [illegible] Tho[?] Leesburg Va."
Medical Subject	Drug Compounding -- instrumentation
Accession Number	2004.8.21a
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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