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Description: | Decoration : Two female busts, facing left, with floral decoration in-between, rim band of wave pattern., A complete collared amphora (?) lid, with ain inverted flanged knob. The upper face of the knob has a central depression, now filled with material from the burial matrix. Around it in a slight dome, a black line with black tongues eminating from it to a further black band, swooping up to the flat reserved lip. The shoulders of the knob aare black with the underside reserved. The neck has a black band sanwiched between two reserved bands, the upper wider than the lower. The vertical sides are divided into four decorative sections, featuring in opposite segments, the head of a woman, facing left with stephane (diadem), sakkos (hat), decorated with white, black and light tan lines, light tan dots and black tongues, small tan hoop earings and a light tan bead necklace. The heads are flanked by shared stylised angular enclosed palmettes with florals on either side. The collar is decorated with reserved waves facing right. The base is unglazed with a small chip missing from the body, possibly where a stone or some other inclusion had dropped out in the past. Part of a letter or number is visible in faded ink, possibly a '2' '3' or 'B'.,
Accession number: NCM 1921-127 | Subjects: | GREEK food and drink? objects of indeterminate use (containers) ceramics APULIAN | Temporal: | 399BC-200BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | ITALY? | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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