Acquisition number: 2009.03
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Intact but the surface is worn and incrusted. Rough orange-brown clay, perhaps with a red-brown slip over. The lip is slightly everted and flattened on the upper face. Strap handles with central ridge on the outer face, set vertically on the shoulder. There is a groove round the shoulder. Flaring foot, flat on the underside.
There is a worn pencilled annotation on the shoulder: ELMO.
Title: Jar with Vertical Handles - 2009.03.1
Acquisition number: 2009.03
Culture or period: Punic.
Date: 2nd century BC. Phase IV.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Jar
Dimensions: 271mm (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. 5.
2009.03.1
Jar with vertical handles
Ht 27.1cm.
(Parliament of Australia inventory number 01/0069.026)
Intact but the surface is worn and incrusted. Rough orange-brown clay, perhaps with a red-brown slip over. The lip is slightly everted and flattened on the upper face. Strap handles with central ridge on the outer face, set vertically on the shoulder. There is a groove round the shoulder. Flaring foot, flat on the underside.
There is a worn pencilled annotation on the shoulder: ELMO.
Placed by Sagona middle to late in Phase IV: second century BC.
C. Sagona, Mediterranean Archaeology 9-10, 1996-97, 41 no. 5.
Parliament of Australia.
Parliament Dr, Canberra ACT 2600.