Acquisition number: 2009.03
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Intact but for some minor chips and wear to the surface; incrusted. Pale brown clay, cream at the surface. A heavy vessel and simply made. Offset everted lip. Two horizontal handles of circular section, tilted slightly upwards. The underside of the foot is flat rather than hollowed.
Thin, dull brown to black paint on the inside of the bowl below the lip, in a band on the edge of the lip, and on the lower wall on the outside. There is no paint on the handles.
Title: Cup with Offset Lip - 2009.03.16
Acquisition number: 2009.03
Culture or period: Punic.
Date: c. 6th century BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Cup/mug
Dimensions: 147mm (w) × 59mm (h)
Origin region or location: Malta
Display case or on loan: 2
Keywords: Maltese, Punic
C. Sagona, Mediterranean Archaeology 9-10, 1996-97, 40 no. 1.
2009.03.16
Cup with Offset Lip
Ht 5.9cm; diam. 14.7cm.
(Parliament of Australia inventory number 01/0069.024)
Intact but for some minor chips and wear to the surface; incrusted. Pale brown clay, cream at the surface. A heavy vessel and simply made. Offset everted lip. Two horizontal handles of circular section, tilted slightly upwards. The underside of the foot is flat rather than hollowed.
Thin, dull brown to black paint on the inside of the bowl below the lip, in a band on the edge of the lip, and on the lower wall on the outside. There is no paint on the handles.
Provincial version of a type popular in Greece, South Italy and Sicily in the sixth century. Compare the Sicilian 1966.07, above, and the references given there. The originals are light in weight and finely made. The date of this piece is difficult to assess given the likelihood of provincial delay; Sagona seems to have preferred a somewhat earlier date. Compare the material in C. Briese and R. Docter, “Das phönizische Skyphos: Adaptation einer griechischen Trinkschale”, Madrider Mitteilungen 33, 1992, 25-69.
C. Sagona, Mediterranean Archaeology 9-10, 1996-97, 40 no. 1.
Parliament of Australia.
Parliament Dr, Canberra ACT 2600.