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Jar with Offset Lip - 2009.03.2

Acquisition number: 2009.03

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Left to right: Jar with vertical handles (2009.03.1), Stamnoid jar (2009.03.3), Jar with offset lip (2009.03.2).

Intact but for one handle which has been broken and rejoined. There are accretions over most of the surface. Rough, cream-buff clay. Simple square-edged lip. On the shoulder a pair of vertical handles of circular section. Flat base. Unpainted.

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Title: Jar with Offset Lip - 2009.03.2

Acquisition number: 2009.03

Author or editor: J.R. Green

Culture or period: Punic.

Date: 6th century BC. Phase II.

Material: Clay - Terracotta

Object type: Vessels - Jar

Dimensions: 177mm (h)

Origin region or location: Malta

Display case or on loan: 2

Keywords: Maltese, Punic

C. Sagona, Mediterranean Archaeology 9-10, 1996-97, 41 no. 4.

2009.03.2

Jar with offset lip

Ht 17.7cm.

(Parliament of Australia inventory number 01/0069.002)

Intact but for one handle which has been broken and rejoined. There are accretions over most of the surface. Rough, cream-buff clay. Simple square-edged lip. On the shoulder a pair of vertical handles of circular section. Flat base. Unpainted.

Placed by Sagona in Phase II: sixth century BC.

C. Sagona, Mediterranean Archaeology 9-10, 1996-97, 41 no. 4.

Parliament of Australia.

Parliament Dr, Canberra ACT 2600.