https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1805-0703-228
‘An ancient oblong square bason of a rich, and rare Egyptian granit of a reddish gray colour three feet eight inches long, and two feet nine inches high – used in temples to hold ye aqua lustralis, and called by ye Greeks ye perriranterion, formerly in ye col. of the queen of Sweden with ye Labrum before mentioned; gave in exchange for it a group of Acteon seized by two dogs, wh cost £165.0.0’ (TY 10/3, fo. 26).
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