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Amphora with two small loop handles

Object No. A5222

Amphora, two small loop handles, earthenware, maker unknown, possibly Rhodes, Greece, c. 300 BCE

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Summary

Physical Description

Red earthenware vase, 15" high, 6" wide at shoulder and tapering to 1" base, with two small loop handles, 3 1/2" wide mouth, found by I. Macrillos when sponge trawling in the Dodecanese, [period c. 300 BC], probably from the island of Rhodes (LC).

DIMENSIONS

Height

340 mm

Width

170 mm

SOURCE

Credit Line

Purchased 1963

Acquisition Date

26 August 1963

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