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Ceramic shards

Quantity: 2.

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Data Provider
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Cataloguing data

Object type
vessel
Material/Technique
Ceramics
Current location
Lehrsammlung der Abteilungen für Urgeschichtliche Archäologie sowie Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie und Archäologie des Mittelalters am Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften der Universität Freiburg
Inventory number
UFG 2018-0763-1

Provenance and sources

  • Finding
    when
    around 1917
    where
    So-called "Bushman's Paradise", Great Spitzkoppe, Namibia
    who
    Reuning, Ernst - Excavators
  • Change of physical control:
    not clarified
    when
    probably 1929
    who
    Schneiderhöhn, Hans - Recipients
    Description
    Hans Schneiderhöhn probably came into possession of the objects during a stay in southern Africa in 1929 - possibly directly through Ernst Reuning, with whom he was personally acquainted.
  • Change of physical control:
    not clarified
    when
    1929/shortly thereafter
    where
    Freiburg im Breisgau
    who
    Schneiderhöhn, Hans - Former Possessors
    Description
    Entry into the prehistoric university collection from the Schneiderhöhn collection, circumstances currently unclear.

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