1977.216.2010: Fragment of an Amphora with graffito inscription
Inscriptions
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1977.216.2010
- Title
- Fragment of an Amphora with graffito inscription
- Classification
- Inscriptions
- Work Type
- inscription
- Date
- 2nd century CE
- Places
- Find Spot: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Rome (Latium)
- Period
- Roman Imperial period, Middle
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/287174
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Incised
- Dimensions
- 12.9 x 8.7 x 0.7 cm (5 1/16 x 3 7/16 x 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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manufacturer's mark: incised graffito: PRIAMI CLARI
(?)
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manufacturer's mark: incised graffito: PRIAMI CLARI
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Acquired by A.S. Pease on Monte Testaccio, December 1905.
Gift to the Department of the Classics, 1906.
Transfer from Department of the Classics, 1977.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Dr. A. S. Pease
- Accession Year
- 1977
- Object Number
- 1977.216.2010
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Potsherd of red clay, incised before firing and later covered with a yellowish gray slip. The wheel-marks inside show that this is from the bottom of the amphora, and that the inscription was upside down. Names incised on vessels before firing are infrequent, and seem to usually identify the potter.
Publication History
- Clifford Herschel Moore, Latin Inscriptions in the Harvard Collection of Classical Antiquities, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (1909), Vol. 20/pp. 1-14, cat. no. 36, p. 14
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/28/2023 - 05/07/2023
Verification Level
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