lepaste
- Museum number
- 1978,0401.1
- Description
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Pottery: Gnathia ware lepaste with lid.
Designs black on red and white on black ground. On the top of the cover, a double palmette (black on red); round the edge, wave pattern (black on red); on the cover, pendants and a pattern of flowers and volutes, all in white; round the edge of the cover, wave-pattern. The body is divided into four compartments inside (two painted red), with a central socket.
Inscriptions inside cover and on bottom of foot.
- Production date
- 400BC-300BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 15.80 centimetres (overall)
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Width: 26.30 centimetres (max)
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- Location
- On display (G1/wp57/sh5)
- Acquisition date
- 1772
- Acquisition notes
- Noted on the record card that this was referred to by Hamilton in Tischbein as being was part of his first Collecttion with the British Museum.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1978,0401.1
