Rare hellenistic amphora
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Object number
AR2897
| Object: |
Amphora
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| Material: |
Red clay
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| Date: |
Ca. 3rd - 1st century BC Hellenistic |
| Description: |
Hellenistic transport or storage amphora. High cylindrical neck with small lip, high handles, steep shoulder, voluminous conical body.
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| Size: |
Height 84 cm, diameter ca. 36 cm.
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| Condition: |
Perfectly preserved with attractive marine patina.
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| Provenance: |
Acquired 2020 from Mr. R. Raymann, who inherited the amphora as part of a collection of ancient objects from his aunt, Trude Raymann, and her partner Kurt Ulrich Schmidt (Stuttgart, Germany). Acquired in the 1980s from the antiquities dealer Helmut Liebert in Krefeld, Germany.
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| References: |
See S. Monakhov, Towards a typology of Knidian amphoras of 4th-2nd c BC , in: The Bosporan phenomenon: Greek culture on the periphery of the ancient world (St Petersburg, 1999) pp. 161-172, Fig 12. left
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| Literature: |
A good overview is provided in: Hayes, Handbook of Mediterranean Roman Pottery, chapter Amphorae Virginia R. Grace, Amphoras and the Ancient Wine Trade. |
| Authenticity: |
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