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Fragment from lower part of alabastron, as ST 418, with a band of ridges and grooves around the outside.
Soft grayish poros. Stroses 5-6, street to Sulla . From "Saucer Grave" at 12/KA(?). 3092 Leica ... 10 May 1954 ... Stroses 5-6, street to Sulla . From "Saucer Grave" at 12/KA(?). |
Shoulder, neck and one handle preserved; long straight neck ending in rounded lip with neat drip; no groove.
Red clay, slipped.
The symbol a bunch of grapes; no letters.
Cf. Hesperia 3 (1934), p. 202, ... 2nd century B.C.(?) ... Msc: prob from jar dated in the term of =ARISTOBOULOS= andr,
=MELANTAS= andr (KT 1531)*
Par: Grace 1934, p202, nr 7*
Dim: Drim 0.105*
Dte: latter 2c BC -- Sulla* |
| Face complete; break below chin, at back and hair at left.
Hair parted in center hanging down in curls. Mouth pierced. Two holes through top of head.
White paint on face, red on hair and lips, trace of ... 9 March 1938 ... Derbis from the sack of Sulla: 75-50 B.C. |
| Most of the neck, but none of the lip, and part of shoulder preserved; One handle complete, missing rim; no groove preserved.
Red clay, slipped.
Boukranion in circular seal. Dim: Dstp 0.04*
Msc: prob ... Latter 2nd century B.C. to Sulla[n] ... Latter 2nd century B.C. to Sulla[n] |
| Mended from several fragments; about half of body missing. Moulded foot; short stem; shallow convex body; high straight rim with out-turned lip. In relief on body: boukrania with pendent ribbons, garlands ... 20 July 1946 ... Cf. also Stenico (1960), Revisione Critica delle Pubblicazioni sulla Ceramica Arretina, p. 64: our piece is compared with the works of Annius." |
| Several pieces, including chunks from sides and rim, missing. Flat bottom; straight sides; flat-topped projecting rim.
Orange-buff clay. Light slip. Surface much worn.
On side wall, just below rim, a ... 9-12 February 1937 ... ; the cistern was perhaps abandoned and filled after the sack of Sulla (86 B.C.). The New Style coins on which the type appears are dated by Sundwall about 40 B.C., and so postdate the seal by some years (Head (1911), Hist. |
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