storage-jar
- Museum number
- 1888,0927.32
- Description
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Pottery storage jar ('amphora') in Red Polished III ware; handmade; depressed biconical body on a flat narrow base with a wide cylindrical neck indented around the join with the body and an everted rim with an angular profile; pair of opposing handles with slight horns; two raised cable-bars on neck and shoulder of both sides; buff clay covered with a reddish-brown slip burnished to a high lustre; surface worn in places; repair on the handles.
- Production date
- 1850 BC-1750 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 8.50 centimetres (mouth)
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Height: 21.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Additional bibliography: C.Smith 1888, 'British Museum', The Classical Review, 2,8, 265-6 discusses the group of objects donated by Falkland Warren; also H.B. Walters, 'On some antiquities of the Mycenaean Age recently acquired by the British Museum', JHS XVII, pp. 71-73 (not mentioned in text).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1888
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1888,0927.32
