Amphora Handle with Punic Stamp | Harvard Art Museums

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
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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

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2008.63: Amphora Handle with Punic Stamp