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Fragment of an Amphora with graffito inscription
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Potsherd of red clay, incised before firing and later covered with a yellowish gray slip. The wheel-marks inside show that this is from the bottom of the amphora, and that the inscription was upside down. Names incised on vessels before firing are infrequent, and seem to usually identify the potter.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Acquired by A.S. Pease on Monte Testaccio December 1905.
Gift to the Department of the Classics 1906.
Transfer from Department of the Classics 1977.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University Gift of Dr. A. S. Pease
Title: Fragment of an Amphora with graffito inscription
Description:
Potsherd of red clay, incised before firing and later covered with a yellowish gray slip.
The wheel-marks inside show that this is from the bottom of the amphora, and that the inscription was upside down.
Names incised on vessels before firing are infrequent, and seem to usually identify the potter.
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