The artifacts consist of a terracotta pot approximately 140 mm (6 in) tall, with a 38 mm (1.5 in) mouth, containing a cylinder made of a rolled copper sheet, which houses a single iron rod. At the top, the iron rod is isolated from th… 展开

Similar vessels, which can be distinguished primarily by their contents, had previously been found and examined more closely:
Four sealed clay vessels were excavated at Seleucia in 1930 under the archaeological direction of Lero… 展开

Its origin and purpose remain unclear. Wilhelm König was an assistant at the Iraq Museum in the 1930s. He had observed a number of very fine silver objects from ancient Iraq, plated with very thin layers of gold, and specul… 展开

Though the iron rod did project outside of the asphalt plug, the copper tube did not, making it impossible to connect a wire to this to complete a circuit.
König himself seems to have been mistaken on the … 展开