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II.—Amphora-stopping from Tarentum
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The Rev. Greville J. Chester has presented to the British Museum an object of some interest which he lately found himself in the cutting near the Ramleh railway station. It consists of a circular cake of gypsum, or what we should call rough plaster of Paris, which was discovered within the neck of an amphora for which it had evidently served as the stopper. It presents the appearance of having been poured in in a liquid condition upon the contents of the amphora, a rough impression of which is consequently preserved in the uneven surface of the under side: the upper side bears the impression of a stamp, thus:
Title: II.—Amphora-stopping from Tarentum
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The Rev.
Greville J.
Chester has presented to the British Museum an object of some interest which he lately found himself in the cutting near the Ramleh railway station.
It consists of a circular cake of gypsum, or what we should call rough plaster of Paris, which was discovered within the neck of an amphora for which it had evidently served as the stopper.
It presents the appearance of having been poured in in a liquid condition upon the contents of the amphora, a rough impression of which is consequently preserved in the uneven surface of the under side: the upper side bears the impression of a stamp, thus:.
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