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Rim Fragment with Punic Stamp
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Tunisian fabric, overfired to a green color. Trumpet shaped rim. Stamp on exterior of rim. Stamp is round, 1.57 cm: Kaph (k); 'alef. The two letters are of late form. Early Roman Amphora type II (Carthage, University of Michigan type series, 1975), local imitation of Phoenician form.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Collected by Horton O'Neil in the fields outside Carthage 1924-1925.
Given to McDaniel Collection by O'Neil in December 1965.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Rim Fragment with Punic Stamp
Description:
Tunisian fabric, overfired to a green color.
Trumpet shaped rim.
Stamp on exterior of rim.
Stamp is round, 1.
57 cm: Kaph (k); 'alef.
The two letters are of late form.
Early Roman Amphora type II (Carthage, University of Michigan type series, 1975), local imitation of Phoenician form.
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