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Description: | Decoration : 2 female busts, facing left, with floral pattern in between. Rim decorated with vertical strokes of black glaze., A complete collared lid with an inverted flanged knob. The upper face of the knob has a central depression, surrounded by a black band with reserved tongues eminating from it to a further black band, swooping upwards to the flat reserved lip. The flanged shoulders of the knob are also reserved and have a chip missing which is covered in remnants of the burial matrix. The neck is larely black glazed with a thinner reserved band at the shoulders. The vertical sides are divided into four decorative sections, featuring in opposite segments, the head of a woman facing left, wearing a stephane (diadem), sakkos (hat0, decorated with white/tan and black dots and lines, and all caught up in a kekryphalos (a large bunch of hair emerging at the back), and white'tan stud earings. The heads are flanked by shared angular stylised palmettes with white and reserved florals on the sides behind the women's heads. The other florals are reserved. The collar is decorated with vertical black tongues. The interior is unglazed with a small chip and an indentation visible. Slight white mottling from the burial matrix is visible on the surface of the interior.,
Accession number: NCM 1921-128 | 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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