2008.70: Amphora Handle with Uncertain Stamp
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2008.70
- Title
- Amphora Handle with Uncertain Stamp
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- handle
- Date
- 323-31 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Punic
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/175334
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Stamped
- Dimensions
- 6.68 cm (2 5/8 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
- 2008.70
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Fragment of a handle, nearly complete. Reddish clay with buff-colored slip. Fabric is Campanian. Stamp is on shoulder. Stamp is rectangular, 3.5 cm and depicts a crescent moon and sun, all common on Carthaginian tombs. There are also three uncertain letters, which may be some form of Punic, Libyan, or other native alphabet.
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. 16
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