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Thymiaterion.
Part of rim and wall missing.
Conical stand, flaring at bottom. Deep, spreading bowl. Irregularity to right of break suggests that there may have been a single handle. Hard, fine, reddish ... 2nd or 1st century? (context mainly of 3rd century after Christ but with two late Hellenistic coins [ΓΓ-211, ΓΓ-212]) ... LIX:136 and five unglazed cups from an Augustan grave at Priene (Priene, no. 112, p. 428, fig. 545:4). |
Round-mouth Juglet.
Handle, center of floor, and two-thirds of body restored.
Bottom slightly concave, with groove around edge. Two grooves just above base of wall. Flaring rim. Strap handle from shoulder ... Context of 115-86 ... Very micaceous, light brownish gray fabric (10YR 6/2); dull grayish brown glaze (10YR 4/1) inside and out.
Cf. Priene, no. 65, p. 422, fig. 538:7. |
Medicine Bottle.
Half of rim missing; foot chipped.
Flat underside, pierced underneath. Irregular, angular profile with high shoulder. Vertical rim with groove at junction with body.
Micaceous, pink ... Late Hellenistic and Roman context ... For medicine bottles with angular profiles similar to this and 1770, many from early-1st-century contexts, see Δελτ 29, 1973--74, B1 1 [1979], p. 149, pl. 110:γ (Peiraieus); Délos XXVII, D 233, p. 261, pl. 49; Marcadé 1953, B 7369, p. 605, fig. 104:a (Delos); Zapheiropoulou and Hatzidakis 1994, pp. 245--246, pls. 196, 201:β (Delos); Technau 1929, p. 47, fig. 36:5 (Samos); Tarsus I, no. 93, p. 217, fig. 123; Priene, no. 87, p. 425, fig. 528:3; Hershkovitz 1986, no. 3, p. 48, fig. 2:3, pl. 9:G (Masada); Smith 1992 (Palestine). |
Shape look Knidian.
Clay look Knidian; russet with gray core; porous and full of bits, and slightly micaceous particularly on the surface which may be a slip.
The impression is circular but the letters ... 11 February 1933 ... Par: Dumont 1871, p214,100, p247,9, p256,61; "see coins of
Priene w/ (hdl-[ ... ]) trid horiz and horiz inscription (also
a lot of other stps)(VG)* |
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