2008.63: Amphora Handle with Punic Stamp
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2008.63
- Title
- Amphora Handle with Punic Stamp
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- handle
- Date
- 300-146 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Carthage (North Africa)
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Punic
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/175185
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Stamped
- Dimensions
- 6.39 cm (2 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Collected by Horton O'Neil in the fields outside Carthage, 1924-1925.
Given to McDaniel Collection by O'Neil in December 1965.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
- Accession Year
- 2008
- Object Number
- 2008.63
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Fabric is Tunisian, orange-red with yellow slip. Top of handle is stamped. Stamp is oval, 1.86 cm: to left, a stylized palm representing the tree of life, to right, modified anh (crux ansata).
Publication History
- Nancy Hirschland and Mason Hammond, "Stamped Potters' Marks and Other Stamped Pottery in the McDaniel Collection", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1968), Vol. 72, pp. 369-82, p. 377 pl. 1 no. 3
Verification Level
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