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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2008.65
Title
Amphora Rim with Punic Stamp
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
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/175275

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Stamped
Dimensions
H. 12.7 cm
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Top right letter lamed (l) in a rare form with a an extra downward stroke at the top ; below tet (t); left is a larger letter taw (t)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Horton O'Neil, Carthage 1924-1925, gift; to Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 1965, transfer; to Harvard Art Museums, 2008

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
2008.65
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Fabric is Tunisian, orange-red in color. Rim is trumpet-shaped. Stamp is on the exterior of the rim. Stamp is square, 1.55 cm: in center, a caduceus, right top, lamed (l) in its rare form with an extra downward stroke at the top, below, tet (t) the sign of royalty, left, taw (t). Early Roman amphora type II (Carthage, University of Michigan type series, 1975), local imitation of Phoenician form.

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. 2

Verification Level

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