stamp
- Museum number
- 1882,0510.47
- Description
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A stamp for decorating Egyptian Red Slip A pottery bowls and plates, with a circular face and a cylindrical grip at the back. The face has a relief design of a monogrammed cross with volutes at the ends of the arms and an alpha and omega depending from the horizontal arms: the loop of the rho has flaked away, as have the alpha and most of the volutes. The arms are decorated with a ladder pattern. There is minor damage on the grip. It may have been made by pressing into a mould or the decoration may have been carved on the face. Micaceous pink Aswan clay with traces of a red slip.
- Production date
- 6thC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.40 inches
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Terracotta IV
Purchased: Greville J. Chester.
Late Roman, about AD 500-600.
Comparanda: For a somewhat similar stamp for Egyptian Red Slip A Ware bowls, from Elephantine, compare Gempeler 1992: pl. 3:6; ibid.: pl. 2:3 is a bowl of the same ware bearing a stamp similar to ours; compare a stamp for a monogrammed cross (Badawy 1978: 349, fig. 5.56) in Turin.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1882,0510.47