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Amphora #1Cyprus, Early Iron Age, 1050 – 650 BC
14.3 cm x 11.8 cm
(5.6” X 4.65”)
Description:
Painted in bichrome linear bands, small hole on one side of body.
Ex-Anthony Thwaite Collection.
Thwaite (1930 – 2021) was a UK poet, literary editor, BBC producer, reviewer, lecturer, antiquarian, and an amateur archaeologist: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/23/anthony-thwaite-obituaryKamnaskires
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Bottle/Unguentarium #1Roman (Western Asia)
c. 1st – 3rd century AD
13.7 cm (h)
(5.4")
Description:
Simple form with with squat bulbous body, flat bottom, long cylindrical neck, and wide, flat rim (chipped). Heavy surface deposits.
Ex-P.M collection; Ex-Colchester Museum CollectionKamnaskires
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Bottle/Unguentarium #2Roman (Western Asia/Holy Land)
c. 1st – 3rd century AD
12.5 cm (h)
(5”)
Description:
Simple form with squat bulbous body, flat bottom, long cylindrical neck, and wide, flat rim (chipped). Kamnaskires
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Bottle/Unguentarium #3Roman
c. 1st – 2nd century AD
83 mm
(3.25”)
Description:
Piriform body, slight constriction at the base of the cylindrical neck, flared rim.
Ex-Marius-Victor-Ernest Dumas Collection. Acquired in Tunisia between c. 1890-1920. M. Dumas was Controleur Civile (French colonial administrator) of the city of Sousse in Tunisia prior to World War I. This piece, along with Dumas’ entire collection of Roman and North African antiquities, remained in his family for a century in the Haute-Savoie region of France.Kamnaskires
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Bottle/Unguentarium #4Roman (Western Asia)
c. 1st – 3rd century AD
13.97 cm (h)
(5.5”)
Description:
Simple form with squat bulbous body, flat bottom, long cylindrical neck, and wide, flat rim.Kamnaskires
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Bowl #1Cypriot
Cypro-Geometric III, Early Iron Age
c. 850 – 700 BC
15.8 cm (w) x 38 mm (h)
(6 3/16” x 1 1/2”)
Description:
A shallow pottery bowl with a single handle, decorated with black painted bands over a red slip surface. Repaired from three pieces, some accretions and minor losses. Underside of base inscribed with an export license reference number from the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia.
Ex-private collection, Kent, UK. Acquired 1960’s – 1980’s.Kamnaskires
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Bowl #2Roman
1st century AD
86 mm (w) x 30 mm (h)
(3 3/8" x 1 3/16”)
Description:
Red glazed, barbotine decoration around the rim in the form of stylized ivy leaves, loss to one side of rim, chips. Although acquired in North Africa in the first half of the 20th century by earlier collectors (see provenance below), a recognized antiquities expert states, “The bowl is likely of European manufacture and was exported in antiquity to the Roman North African colonies. I say this as the red slip is a little bit finer and glossier than the Roman North African local production (mostly around modern Tunisia). Also, this barbotine decoration was very popular throughout the Roman Empire and therefore widely exported/traded.”
Ex-private collection, Paris, France; inherited and formerly acquired in North Africa during the early to mid-20th century.Kamnaskires
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Bowl #3Roman
c. 2nd century AD
16.2 cm (w) x 73 mm (h)
(6.4” x 2.9”)
Description:
Gray ware, rolled rim, base ring, repaired/reconstructed from sections. Excavated at Deans Hanger, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England in 1972.
Ex-Michael Green Collection (Tiverton, England), acquired between the 1970's and 2012Kamnaskires
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Bowl #4Pre-Columbian Central America
c. 500 - 1000 AD
89 mm (w) x 50 mm (h)
(3.5" x 2")
Description:
Darkened projections in three locations around body (one set chipped) perhaps representing animal faces?; bowl listed as coming from the Costa Rica Atlantic Watershed.Kamnaskires
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Bowl #6Pre-Columbian South America
(Listed as coming from the Pichincha highlands, Ecuador)
c. 800 - 1500 AD
12 cm (w) x 8.9 cm (h)
(4.75” x 3.5”)
Description:
Black-over-red geometric and linear patterning, as well as overall pedestal form, match some Narino culture bowls of the period.Kamnaskires
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Bowl #7Tyre
Roman period? Earlier?
73 mm (2.88”)
Description:
Small bowl with flat bottom and pronounced rim; marked “Tyre, Lebanon 22 Nov. 76” on bottom – presumably the excavation date.
Ex-NY City collection (estate sale)Kamnaskires
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Bowl #8Possibly Iran (Tepe Sialk?)
Iron Age?
10 cm (4") (width)
Description:
Tripod bowl with base extending to same depth as legs, which are slanted outward; one leg is intact, one chipped, and one missing. The bowl bears some similarities to Medvedskaya’s (Iran: Iron Age I) Fig. 4, Sialk 22 and 23. (It is sort of a hybrid of these).
Ex-NY City collection (estate sale)Kamnaskires
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Bowl #9Cypriot
Iron Age, Cypro-Geometric, c. 1050 – 750 BC
20.3 cm (w) x 58.4 mm (h)
(8” x 2.3”)
Description:
Shallow, flaring body with flattened base; interior decorated with concentric dark-pigmented circles over a red slip surface; two opposing pierced lugs (one clogged); body repaired.
Ex- P. A. Collection, London, 1990’s.Kamnaskires
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Bucchero Ware ChaliceEtruscan/Etruria (Central Italy)
c. 7th – 6th century BC
12.7 cm (w) x 89 mm (h)
(5” x 3.5”)
Description:
Pedestal foot, pronounced border at bottom of bowl, above which are incised bands.
Ex-Wesley Laws Collection, Palms Spring, CAKamnaskires
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Bucchero Ware KantharosEtruscan/Etruria (Central Italy)
c. 7th century BC
14.6 cm (w) x 12 cm (h)
(5.75” x 4.75”)
Description:
Flared conical foot, tall arching handles (one missing), notched ridge around body at base of handles.
Ex-Marcel Gibrat CollectionKamnaskires
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CupNW Iran
1200 – 800 BC
95 mm (w) x 10.8 cm (h)
(3.75” x 4.25”)
Cf. Medvedskaya (Iran: Iron Age I), Fig. 4.1, Sialk
Ex-Arthur M. Sackler collection. [Sackler (1913-1987) was one of America's preeminent collectors of Asian and ancient art.] This piece was among dozens of ancient Near Eastern ceramics works from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection released from long term storage by Sotheby's, c. 2009. They were sold at auction by Millea Bros. at the Morristown, New Jersey Armory, February 2011.Kamnaskires
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Dish (Phiale Mesomphalos?)Greek?
85.73 mm (3.38") (w)
Description:
Undecorated shallow bowl/dish with raised boss/omphalos in center.
Ex-NY City collection (estate sale)Kamnaskires
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Footed Cup or BowlParthian
Mid third century BC to early third century AD
13.34 cm (w) x 11.43 cm (h)
(5.25” x 4.5”)
Ex-Arthur M. Sackler collection. Published in "Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections" (1992) by Trudy S. Kawami, figure 170, page 226. Sackler Collection accession number = 70.2.747. This piece was among dozens of ancient Western Asian ceramics works from the of Arthur M. Sackler Collection that were released by Sotheby's c. 2009 from long term storage. They were sold at auction by Millea Bros. at the Morristown, New Jersey Armory, February 2011.Kamnaskires
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GuttosGreek
c. 5th – 4th century BC
12 cm (l) x 60 mm (h)
(4 3/4” x 2 3/8”)
Description:
Blackware, strap handle (repaired), narrow spout, ribs to the shoulder.
Formerly part of two European collections, the earlier formed mainly in the 1980’s.Kamnaskires
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Jug #1NW Iran
12th – 10th century BC
13.97 cm (w) x 15.24 cm (h)
(5 1/2” x 6”)
Description:
Carinated jug with loop handle, rim flake.
Ex-Arthur M. Sackler collection. [Sackler (1913-1987) was one of America's preeminent collectors of Asian and ancient art.] This piece was among dozens of ancient Near Eastern ceramics works from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection released from long term storage by Sotheby's, c. 2009. They were sold at auction by Millea Bros. at the Morristown, New Jersey Armory, February 2011. Kamnaskires
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Jug #2NW Iran
12th – 10th century BC
12.7 cm (w) x 13.98 cm (h)
(5” x 5.5”)
Description:
Single loop handle, chip at rim
Ex-Marcel Gibrat CollectionKamnaskires
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Jug #3NW Iran
1200 - 800 BC
19 cm (w) x 24.13 cm (h)
(7.5 ” x 9.5”)
Cf. Medvedskaya (Iran: Iron Age I), Fig. 2, I.a.1
Description:
Round, fat body, narrow neck, loop handle, rim chip with sherd missing
Ex-Arthur M. Sackler collection. [Sackler (1913-1987) was one of America's preeminent collectors of Asian and ancient art.] This piece was among dozens of ancient Near Eastern ceramics works from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection released from long term storage by Sotheby's, c. 2009. They were sold at auction by Millea Bros. at the Morristown, New Jersey Armory, February 2011.Kamnaskires
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Jug #4NW Iran
1200 – 800 BC
16.5 cm (w) x 20.3 cm (h)
(6.5” x 8”)
Cf. Medvedskaya (Iran: Iron Age I), Fig. 2, I.a.1
Description:
Round body, cylindrical neck with losses, loop handle
Ex-Arthur M. Sackler collection. [Sackler (1913-1987) was one of America's preeminent collectors of Asian and ancient art.] This piece was among dozens of ancient Near Eastern ceramics works from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection released from long term storage by Sotheby's, c. 2009. They were sold at auction by Millea Bros. at the Morristown, New Jersey Armory, February 2011.Kamnaskires
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Jug #5Roman
c. 3rd century AD
10.8 cm (w) x 14.6 cm (h)
(4.25” x 5.75”)
Description:
Loop handle, bulbous body, flared rim, narrow base, ring foot, some mineral encrustations
Ex-Alex Stanichev, Winnetka, CA
Kamnaskires
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Jug #6Western Asia (Holy Land)
Iron Age II C (800-587 BC)
14.9 cm (5.9”)
Amiran (Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land), plate 89, fig. 20
Description:
Vessel (“dipper juglet”) with rounded bottom, tall neck flaring toward broken rim, loop handle, remnants of red slip.
Ex-NY City collection (estate sale)Kamnaskires
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Jug #7Western Asia (Holy Land)
Iron Age II C (800-587 BC)
12.7 cm (5”)
Amiran (Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land), plate 88, fig. 17
Description:
Vessel (“dipper juglet”) with rounded bottom, tall neck flaring toward broken rim, loop handle.
Ex-NY City collection (estate sale)Kamnaskires
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Jug #8Western Asia (Holy Land)
Iron Age II C (800-587 BC)
10.16 cm (4”)
Amiran (Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land), plate 89, fig. 15
Description:
Common southern Holy Land jug form (as per Amiran) with squat globular body, rounded base, handle drawn from rim to shoulder.
Ex-NY City collection (estate sale)Kamnaskires
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Jug #9Western Asia (Holy Land)
Iron Age II C (800-587 BC)
9.53 cm (3.75”)
Amiran (Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land), plate 89, fig. 15
Description:
Common southern Holy Land jug form (as per Amiran) with squat globular body, rounded base, handle drawn from rim to shoulder.
Ex-NY City collection (estate sale)Kamnaskires
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Juglet #1Western Asia (Holyland)
c. 1000 - 586 BC
(Iron Age II, Judaea)
76 mm (h)
(3”)
Description:
Bulbous body, narrow neck, encrustations. This seems to have been a standardized form of juglet in parts of Western Asia. Although typically associated with the Holyland (and advertised as such), juglets of similar shape have been found in other areas of Western Asia, including Iran.Kamnaskires
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Juglet #2Greek
c. 3rd century BC
41.3 mm (w) x 60.3 mm (h)
(1 5/8” x 2.38”)
Description:
Bulbous body with narrow neck and flared rim (chipped), ring foot. Perhaps an unguentarium.
Ex-Old German collection, collected from digs around the Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, and Cyprus, 1930's)Kamnaskires
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Juglet #34th – 3rd century BC
51 mm (w) x 66 mm (h)
(1 ¾” x 2 ½”)
Description:
Blackware, bulbous body, flared rim, strap handle.Kamnaskires
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Oil Lamp #1Greek
c. 3rd – 1st century BC
98.4 mm (l) x 73 mm (w) x 33 mm (h)
(3 7/8” x 2 7/8” x 1 5/16”)
Description:
Small circular pedestal base, bulbous circular body, elongated spout, oxidized black glaze.Kamnaskires
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Oil Lamp #2Greek
c. 4th century BC
10.3 cm (l) x 70 mm (w) x 44 mm (h)
(4” x 2.75” x 1.75”)
Description:
Circular base, bulbous circular body, elongated spout, black glaze (mostly intact), some chipping
Ex-Rolf Ivarsson Collection, Linkoping, Sweden; acquired 1940’s-1970’sKamnaskires
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Oil Lamp #3Greek
c. 3rd – 1st century BC
57.15 mm (w) x 86 mm (l) x 38 mm (h)
(2 ¼” x 3 3/8” x 1 ½”)
Description:
Black glazed terracotta lamp with small circular pedestal base and bulbous circular body.Kamnaskires
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Oil Lamp #4Roman
c. 1st – 2nd century AD
63.5 mm (w) x 83 mm (l) x 30 mm (h)
(2.5” x 3.25” x 1.19”)
Description:
Mold-made, plain discus, undecorated shoulder, handle missing.Kamnaskires
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Oil Lamp #5Late Roman/Early Byzantine
c. 5th century AD
90.5 mm (l)
(3.56")
Description:
Mold-made, discus decorated with relief pattern, lug handle, red clay body with light deposits.Kamnaskires
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Oil Lamp #6Greek
(Greek colonies – Howland type 25)
c. 3rd century BC
73 mm (2.9”) (l) x 38.1 (1.5”) (h)
Description:
Wheel-made body, black glazed, large central filling hole, nozzle gouged and broken, inward sloping shoulder, concave underside of base signed in ink:
“Lamp from Macedonia
Kieffer
1915
(ASN)”
Form similar to this Attic example from the Met:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/241699Kamnaskires
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OinochoeGreek, South Italy
4th – 3rd century BC
64 mm (w) x 86 mm (h)
(2 ½” x 3 3/8”)
Description:
Black glazed (one area apparently misfired in antiquity), ribbed, trefoil mouth, handle missing, old collection or archaeological number “G1009” written in red ink on bottom.
From a UK collectionKamnaskires
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OllaPre-Columbian Central America
c. 700 – 1500 AD
15.2 cm (w) x 13.3 cm (h)
(6” x 5 ¼”)
Description:
Bulbous body, pronounced rim, two rows of impressed dots at junction between body and neck, evidence of heating/cooking on underside. May originate from Costa Rica or Panama, perhaps from the Nicoya or Diquis cultures.Kamnaskires
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Olpec. 4th century BC
Magna Graecia
86.4 mm (w) x 81.3 mm (h)
(3.4" x 3.2”)
Description:
Blackware, some chips, repaired from sherds.
Ex-Douglas Haner Collection, acquired in the 1960sKamnaskires
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PitcherCentral or NW Iran
c. 1000 BC
11.18 cm (w) x 12.7 cm (h)
(4.4"x 5")
Cf. Medvedskaya ("Iran: Iron Age I"), Fig. 7, #91
Description:
Tubular spout, small lug handle, brown decoration, with losses.
Ex-Marcel Gibrat CollectionKamnaskires
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Sherd Subset: Byzantine #1c. 6th century AD
31.75 cm (w) x 20 cm (h)
(12.5” x 7.87”)
Description:
Upper portion of a large amphora, recovered from the Black Sea, off the coast of the village of Koblevo (Kobleve) in southern Ukraine. I previously had this attributed as Greek, but some cursory research leads me to think it may be early Byzantine. Thoughts/help appreciated.Kamnaskires
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Sherd Subset: Etruscanc. 6th century BC
11.45 cm (w) x 15.9 cm (h)
(4.5" x 6.25")
Description:
Fragment from the shoulder of a large dolium (ovoid form vessel), decorated with two registers of animals above vertical fluting.
Ex-Spoelstra family collection, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsKamnaskires
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Sherd Subset: Greek #1c. 5th century BC
44 mm x 28 mm
(1.75” x 1.1”)
Description:
Red-figure pottery sherd depicting a winged female…Nike?
Ex-Connecticut private collectionKamnaskires
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Sherd Subset: Greek #2c. 5th century BC
Calpe, Spain
Description:
Greek colonial blackware potsherds. With one exception, all sherds here were surface finds (by the previous owner) from 1966 at the Penyal d’lfac in Calpe, Spain. This coastal site was close to the speculated location of Alonis, a Greek settlement mentioned by ancient authors including Stephanus of Byzantium.Kamnaskires
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Sherd Subset: Greek #3c. 5th century BC
Description:
Various sherds, some blackware; includes the neck and lip of, perhaps, a squat lekythos, and the fragmented body of a small lekythos.
Ex-Connecticut private collection
Kamnaskires
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Sherd Subset: Greek #4c. 5th century BC
Description:
Sherds, mostly blackware, from Olbia, an important ancient Greek colony in southern Ukraine, founded in the 7th century BC, located on the northern Black Sea coast. The colony endured for centuries and, so, narrowing down the dating of these sherds is probably not possible.
Kamnaskires
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Sherd Subset: Greek #5c. 4th century BC
13.4 cm (h) (5.3”)
Description:
Apulian blackware figural handle from a large jug, head (of Zeus?) at its base.
Ex-Private collection from the 1960sKamnaskires
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Sherd Subset: Greek #6c. 5th century BC?
21.3 cm x 13.97 cm
(8.4” x 5.5”)
Description:
Amphora fragment, found in southern Ukraine, Olbia region.Kamnaskires
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Sherd Subset: Greek #7Ancient (period/culture unknown)
Description:
Vessel fragments from the Cherkasy region of Ukraine, along the Dnieper River; two (left and right) from the same large pot
Kamnaskires
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Sherd Subset: MayanHonduras, possibly Ulua region
Late Classic, c. 550 – 900 AD
120 mm (w) x 57 mm (h)
(4.75” x 2.25”)
Description:
Polychrome fragment with complex patterning. Old sticker suggests a date of c. 250 AD (Early Classic). However, based on cursory research, I believe the sherd more likely dates to the Late Classic period. Thoughts welcome.
Ex-Oregon private collectionKamnaskires
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Sherd Subset: Roman #1Left:
Fragment of oil lamp discus with hind legs of a boar. Some soot and encrustations.
c. 1st – 2nd century AD
57.2 mm (w) x 82.6 mm (l)
(2 ¼” x 3 ¼”)
Right top:
Terra sigillata fragment with running hare motif.
c. 1st – 2nd century AD
38 mm
Right center:
Terra sigillata fragment with floral motif and other decorative elements – perhaps including stylized lion’s head atop staff?
c. 1st – 2nd century AD
48 mm
Right bottom:
Terra sigillata fragment with leaf motif.
c. 1st – 2nd century AD
41 mmKamnaskires
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Sherd Subset: Roman #2Eleven terra sigillatta fragments
c. 1st – 2nd century AD
Largest measures about 67mm (2.6") at widest point
Above:
Group shot of the eleven.
Below:
Individual studies of seven of the sherds:
1. Apollo seated left with kithara; for a very similar but clearer rendition of the scene, see this fragment from the Museen am Donaulimes in Österreich: https://www.donau-limes.at/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Apollo_CIMG7573G.jpg
2. Recumbent animals.
3. Two figures, including nude male at right.
4. Helmeted warrior left, holding round shield.
5. Hindquarters of a dog or boar.
6. Lion (?) right.
7. Nude warrior in contrapposto with shield and, perhaps, spear.Kamnaskires
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Squat Lekythos #1Greek
4th – 3rd century BC
69 mm (w) x 89 mm (h)
(2 ¾” x 3 ½”)
Description:
Blackware, incised horizontal bands, strap handle.
Ex-Wesley Laws Collection, Palms Spring, CAKamnaskires
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Squat Lekythos #24th – 3rd century BC
51 mm (w) x 66 mm (h)
(2” x 2.6”)
Description:
Blackware, ringed foot, wide body, narrow neck, rim and handle chipped.Kamnaskires
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Tripod BowlNW Iran
c. 2000 – 1500 BC
11.43 cm (w) x 10.8 cm (h)
(4.5” x 4.25”)
Description:
Cylindrical body with rounded bottom and wide, outturned rim, three legs, buff clay with painted black geometric diamond net decoration.
Ex-Marcel Gibrat CollectionKamnaskires
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Vessel/Pot #1(Likely NW Iran, based on similarity to vessels excavated at Tepe Giyan, Godin Tepe, and Tepe Sialk* in NW Iran)
c. 1000 BC
24.1 cm (w) x 20.32 cm (h)
(9 ½” x 8”)
Description:
Wide, carinated vessel with raised ridge at shoulder, decorated with horizontal stripes above and below ridge, ridge itself decorated with a pattern of small triangles, losses to rim, small chip at foot, encrustations and gouges, no restorations or cracks.
Ex-Marcel Gibrat Collection
*For a vessel with a very similar pattern of triangles along its ridge, see this example from Tepe Sialk: http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/cs538ef1ea.jpgKamnaskires
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Vessel/Pot #2NW Iran
Early first millennium BC
25.4 cm (w) x 13.97 cm (h)
(10” x 5.5”)
Description:
Cylindrical spout angling upward from round body, vertical neck, flattened base, section missing from rim, otherwise intact
Ex-Arthur M. Sackler collection. [Sackler (1913-1987) was one of America's preeminent collectors of Asian and ancient art.] This piece was among dozens of ancient Near Eastern ceramics works from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection released from long term storage by Sotheby's, c. 2009. They were sold at auction by Millea Bros. at the Morristown, New Jersey Armory, February 2011.Kamnaskires
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Vessel/Pot #3Western or NW Iran
Early first millennium BC (Iron Age II)
23.5 cm (w) x 22.9 cm (h)
(9.25” x 9”)
Description:
Large, round body, "bird beak spout" with open channel projecting from one side of rim, some losses (to handle, rim, and spout), long but stable body crack.
Ex-Arthur M. Sackler collection. [Sackler (1913-1987) was one of America's preeminent collectors of Asian and ancient art.] This piece was among dozens of ancient Near Eastern ceramics works from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection released from long term storage by Sotheby's, c. 2009. They were sold at auction by Millea Bros. at the Morristown, New Jersey Armory, February 2011.Kamnaskires
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Vessel/Pot #4Amlash (NW Iran)
c. 1000 BC
18.4 cm (w) x 13.3 cm (h)
(7 ¼” x 5 ¼”)
Description:
Large, round body, “bird beak spout” with open channel projecting from one side of rim, small loop handle, adorno below handle (Bull or ram’s head? Bird in flight?).Kamnaskires
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Vessel/Pot #5Western or NW Iran
c. 1000 BC
25.4 cm (w) x 17 cm (h)
(10” x 6.7”)
Description:
Beak-spouted vessel with carinated body, opposing small ring handle, decorated with pinched bands and incised lines, small losses to rim and spout.
Ex-Carlisle, England collection formed 1960s – 1980sKamnaskires
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