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Flask - 2009.03.11

Acquisition number: 2009.03

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Left to right: Flask (2009.03.10), Flask (2009.03.11), Unguentarium (2009.03.8), Unguentarium (2009.03.9).

Intact but for two chips from the lip; there is incrustation about the mouth and upper neck. Pale brown clay (as 2009.03.10). Simple everted lip; tall neck; rounded base. The mouth and all the neck were dipped in paint which has fired a matt red-brown; it is somewhat worn.

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Title: Flask - 2009.03.11

Acquisition number: 2009.03

Author or editor: J.R. Green

Culture or period: Punic.

Date: Phase V: Late Hellenistic to Early Roman.

Material: Clay - Terracotta

Object type: Vessels - Flask

Dimensions: 106mm (h)

Origin region or location: Malta

Display case or on loan: 2

Keywords: Maltese, Punic

C. Sagona, Mediterranean Archaeology 9-10, 1996-97, 42 no. 14.

2009.03.11

Flask

Ht 10.6cm.

(Parliament of Australia inventory number 01/0069.009)

Intact but for two chips from the lip; there is incrustation about the mouth and upper neck. Pale brown clay (as 2009.03.10). Simple everted lip; tall neck; rounded base. The mouth and all the neck were dipped in paint which has fired a matt red-brown; it is somewhat worn.

Sagona places it in Phase V: Late Hellenistic to Early Roman.

C. Sagona, Mediterranean Archaeology 9-10, 1996-97, 42 no. 14.

Parliament of Australia.

Parliament Dr, Canberra ACT 2600.