2008.64: Amphora Handle with Punic Stamp

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2008.64

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/175256

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Terracotta

Technique

Stamped

Dimensions

H. 6.85 cm (2 11/16 in.)

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

2008.64

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Fabric is Tunisian, orange with cream. Handle is stamped on top. Oval stamp, 1.92 cm: to right, qof (q), to left, zayin (z). The zayin comes out backwards on the stamp and may represent the number 20.

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. 9

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