amphoriskos;
jar
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.98
- Description
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Pottery amphoriskos (miniature jar); wheel-made; compressed globular body (almost rectangular in profile) on a sharply pointed nipple base; narrow concave neck splaying upwards in a conical section; slightly chamfered rim; pair of opposing strap handles (oval section) from shoulder to rim. Made of slightly coarse buff-buff brown clay fired irregularly to a yellow-buff surface; surface worn and pitted in places.
- Production date
- 600 BC-300 BC
- Dimensions
-
Height: 7 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This is an example of a Plain White ware (and related) miniature amphora of a kind common in the later CA and CC periods. The best documented contexts are in the necropolis of Salamis, where a fairly wide range of variants can be found (Karageorghis 1970: Tomb 10: pl. LXV, 25 and 106; Tomb 13: pl. LXXVIII, 28 and 29; Tomb 21A, pl. XCIV, 6; Tomb 37, pl. CXX, 17, 23 and 24; Tomb 51, pl. 55, 66; Tomb 53, pl. CXXXIII, 13 and 30; Tomb 60, pl. CXLIV, 54 and 65; Tomb 66, pl. CXLIX, Dr. 3 and Ch. 4; Tomb 82, pl. CLVII, 21; Tomb 113, 43-4, 47, unstratified find: pl. XLIV, 56; XLVII, 586). See also comments of Webb 1997, 10 no. 40 (in reference to an unprovenanced example).
Bibliography:
Karageorghis V. 1970, Excavations in the necropolis of Salamis II (Nicosia)
Webb J. 1997, Cypriote antiquities in Australian collections I. Corpus of Cypriote Antiquities 18. SIMA XX:18 (Jonsered).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.98
