In the shadow of London's British Museum, is a bit of South Africa's desert.
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Described by John Curtis, keeper of special Middle East projects at London's BritishMuseum, as "one of the most iconic objects in the museum, " it is a small, unremarkable oblong of clay almost 9 inches long and 4 inches in circumference.
The only known bowl of the same form, size and almost identical decoration has been in the collection of the BritishMuseum in London for more than 60 years, after being left to the museum by the prominent British collector Henry J Oppenheim in 1947.
"Somehow the press got this notion I had never been to London, " said Bush outside the BritishMuseum, telling reporters he had been to London two times before.