Elegant Roman jar with two handles
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Object number
AR2961
| Object: |
Jar with two handles
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| Material: |
Red clay with widely preserved dark red - brownish slip
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| Date: |
About 2nd - 3rd century A.D. Roman Empire |
| Description: |
Piriform jar with ring-shaped base and high concave neck. The rim is sharply cut without a distinct lip. With two flat handles attached to rim and outer side of the shoulder.
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| Size: |
Height 171 mm, diameter 119 mm
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| Condition: |
Very well preserved, undamaged vase.
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| Reference: |
See C. Höpken, Die römische Keramikproduktion in Köln (Mainz 2005) Type T40 (there the handles do not rise higher than the rim)
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| Provenance: |
Acquired 2017 from the German private collection Spielmann, in which the object was acquired in the 1960s at an ancient art gallery in Cologne, Germany.
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| Authenticity: |
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