- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2008.62
- Title
- Rim Fragment with Punic Stamp
- Classification
- Fragments
- Work Type
- sherd
- Date
- 300-146 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Carthage (North Africa)
- Period
- Roman Imperial period, Early
- Culture
- Phoenician
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/175257
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Stamped
- Dimensions
- 6.74 x 2.57 cm (2 5/8 x 1 in.)
- Provenance
- 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
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- 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
- 2008.62
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Tunisian fabric, overfired to a green color. Trumpet shaped rim. Stamp on exterior of rim. Stamp is round, 1.57 cm: Kaph (k); 'alef. The two letters are of late form. Early Roman Amphora type II (Carthage, University of Michigan type series, 1975), local imitation of Phoenician form.
- Publication History
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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. 11
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