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Mended with missing pieces restored in plaster and painted, notably sections of the lower part of the body. Glaze abraded around handle B/A. H. 0.563; rest. diam. 0.415. T. L. Shear, Hesperia 7, 1938, ... Ca. 440-430 B.C ... For the ivy on the mouth of a one-piece amphora, see the one in Kos (RM 93, 1986, pl. 40; JdI 102, 1987, p. 117, fig. 39; Hayashi, Triptolemosbildes, pl. 7); also 12.
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Medicine Bottle.
Handle and half of neck and mouth missing.
Flat base with string marks. Irregular, barrel-shaped body with slightly angular shoulder. Short, thick neck; plain, slightly outturned rim ... Context of late 1st century B.C. and 1st century after Christ ... Intriguing, but of uncertain relevance, is the fact that Νικι'ας is also the name of a doctor the poet Theokritos knew on Kos in the 3rd century (Idyll 11.2, 5; Idyll 28). |
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