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Amphora Handle with Uncertain Stamp
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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.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
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
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Amphora Handle with Uncertain Stamp
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.
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