2008.59: Handle to a Large Vessel
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2008.59
- Title
- Handle to a Large Vessel
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- handle
- Date
- 4th-1st century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Punic
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/175311
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Incised
- Dimensions
- 12.6 cm (4 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Collected by Horton O'Neil in the fields outside Carthage, 1924-1925.
Given to McDaniel Collection by O'Neil in June, 1967.
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
- 2008.59
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Double rod handle. Each rod is incised with a spiral. Coarse, orange buff fabric.
Verification Level
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