kantharos

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Object Type
Museum number: 1842,0407.5
Description: Pottery: Gnathian kantharos with a white ivy wreath decoration on the exterior and rays marked below the handles, two recurved handles, broken and reconstructed.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 3rdC BC
Production place: Made in: Egnatia
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 11.25 centimetres; Height: 7.50 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Old Catalogue / A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (1765); Msc (1713); CVA British Museum 1 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 1, British Museum 1 (IV D c Pl. 8, 3)
Location: On display (G1/wp159/sh11)
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Basseggio; Purchased through: Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
Acquisition date: 1842
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1842,0407.5

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