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Amphora Rim with Punic Stamp
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Fabric is Tunisian, orange-red in color. Rim is trumpet-shaped. Stamp is on the exterior of the rim. Stamp is square, 1.55 cm: in center, a caduceus, right top, lamed (l) in its rare form with an extra downward stroke at the top, below, tet (t) the sign of royalty, left, taw (t). Early Roman amphora type II (Carthage, University of Michigan type series, 1975), local imitation of Phoenician form.
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 Rim with Punic Stamp
Description:
Fabric is Tunisian, orange-red in color.
Rim is trumpet-shaped.
Stamp is on the exterior of the rim.
Stamp is square, 1.
55 cm: in center, a caduceus, right top, lamed (l) in its rare form with an extra downward stroke at the top, below, tet (t) the sign of royalty, left, taw (t).
Early Roman amphora type II (Carthage, University of Michigan type series, 1975), local imitation of Phoenician form.
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