alabastron
- Museum number
- 1950,1027.1
- Description
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Faience-glazed pottery pointed alabastron with a pointed shaped body and marked on the exterior with a green and brown pattern of squares and dots, broken from the neck, worn and chipped in places.
- Production date
- late 7thc BC - early 6thc BC
- Curator's comments
- Attributed to Papatislures grave 16 based on evidence from Biliotti's Kamiros diary, Kamiros tomb list, British Museum register. Description in Biliotti's Kamiros diary: Bottle enamelled – black bands on blue ground (1 fragment). No marking of grave number visible on the object itself.
Attributions to find-spots are based on (1) Alfred Biliotti’s diary kept during excavations at Kamiros between November 1863 and June 1864, which records the contents of two votive deposits and over 300 graves; (2) entries in the Museum Register, often stipulating the find-spots of individual objects excavated by Biliotti; (3) the Kamiros tomb list, produced around the same time as his entries in the Museum Register. It lists the contents of each grave and votive deposit, along with their corresponding registration numbers; (4) the Kamiros index cards, written by Donald Bailey in the 1960’s. These mainly record the contents of graves from the Fikellura cemetery and are organised according to tomb group. All archives are kept in the Department of Greece and Rome. In addition, Reynold Higgins’ Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1954) has been checked for attributions to the Fikellura cemetery.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1950,1027.1
