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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)* |
Most of foot and one-sixth of body missing.
Flaring foot. Spherical body with pentagons drawn in glazed grooves; groove around hole. Dull red glaze.
A small fragment of another, smaller (Diam. 5.0 cm.) ... 150-110 ... LXXXI (Delos, late Hellenistic); Priene, nos. 98, 99, p. 426, figs. 540, 549; Paphos III, no. 21, pp. 150--151, fig. |
Platter With Offset Rim.
About one-third preserved; foot missing. Mended in antiq-uity; one lead clamp and holes for two more preserved.
Horizontal floor with groove and ridge edge. Offset rim with molded ... 1st-century context ... For similar stamping on gray ware see Délos XXVII, D 53, p. 248, pl. 43; AvP XI, i, no. 270, p. 142, pl. 50; Priene, no. 11, pp. 398--399, fig. 526; Labraunda II, i, nos. 341, 342, p. 75, pl. 17; Samaria III, no. 39, p. 259, fig. 52:39. |
Rim and three-fourths of body restored.
Low foot; curved resting surface; nearly flat underside with spiral marks. Upper and lower body of equal height, both slightly curved.
Smooth transition to neck ... Late 2nd to early 1st century? (3rd-century context,disturbed) ... For other lagynoi of this same general shape and decoration see Kaltsas 1990, no. 13, p. 12, pl. 14:η (Pylos); Délos XXVII, D 110, p. 252, pl. 45 and Zapheiropoulou and Hatzidakis 1994, pp. 244--245, pl. 199:α (Delos, in late-2nd- to early-1st-century contexts); Priene, no. 19, p. 401, fig. 539:2 on p. 422 (with different mouth); Giannikouri, Patsiada, and Philimonos 1990, p. 175, pl. 90:d (Rhodes); BCH 90, 1966, p. 335, fig. 89:b (Cyprus); Paphos III, series 6, nos. 16, 17, pp. 20--21, figs. |
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 ... Bottles of a somewhat similar shape but with a pointed bottom instead of a flat resting surface have been found at Priene, stamped with the names Isodoros, Proteos, and Charidem[, though without the word λυ'κιον (Priene, pp. 425--426, nos. 93--96, fig. 543); other pots name Krates, Thrasys, Aristeos, Straton, and Kosmos (Calvet 1982, p. 282) but omit the name of the drug. |
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