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- Museum number
- ML.2704
- Description
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Tripartite carinated pottery vessel with deep flared rim, very narrow shoulder and omphalos base. Omphalos just a dimple in the outer base, does not affect the inside. Exterior glossy burnish, interior smoothed. Firing uncontrolled dark; patchy dark brown and grey.
- Production date
- 600 BC - 350 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 68 millimetres (max)
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Height: 57 millimetres
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Weight: 95 grammes
- Curator's comments
- Stead and Rigby 1999
Complete.
Context:
Tripartite carinated vessels: The vessel comprises three straight-sided sections in different planes meeting at two angles. Radiography has confirmed that a sharply angled jar found at Marson (ML.2644) was made with a definite luted seam at the shoulder carination, the implication being that the overall tripartite shape was achieved by making vessels in three separate sections. The basic shape allowed potters to experiment with proportion and detail which resulted in a great diversity of shapes and sizes, only some of which are represented in the Morel Collection. Criteria for sub-groups are comparative depth of the rim, shoulder and body sections; configuration of the rim; and configuration of the lower body. Examples are ordered by size. They range from Hallstatt C/D to La Tène I. The tripartite shape was current in Hallstatt C burials at 'la Ferme Rouge' Court-St-Etienne, Belgium (Mariën, M.E., 1958, ‘Trouvailles du champ d’urnes et des tombelles hallstattiennes de Court-Saint-Etienne’ (Monographies d’Archéologie Nationale, 1) Brussels, figs 15, no. 12, and 26, no. 27). Probably the most characteristic vessel form in burials of the mid-fifth to the mid-fourth century BC in the Champagne region.
Variant with deep flared rim: One of the earliest variants is a miniature version with a deep flared rim, very narrow shoulder and omphalos base occurring in burials of Hallstatt C/D including Les Jogasses graves 74 and 89, and Mont Troté graves 88 and 91.
Printed site label, but there is also an outline of another, therefore possibly some confusion in provenance.
- Location
- On display (G50/dc13)
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.2704