Acquisition number: 1966.38
Intact. Pinkish buff clay. Globular body with broad flat base. The vase was dipped in glaze to cover the upper half of the vase but the air pressure prevented the glaze from entering far within the mouth. Most of the glaze has now worn away.
Title: Sicilian Globular Squat Lekythos - 1966.38
Acquisition number: 1966.38
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: 6th century BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Flask
Dimensions: 55mm (w) × 60mm (h)
Origin region or location: Italy
Origin city: Possibly Gela.
Display case or on loan: 10
Keywords: Sicilian, Gela, Woite Collection
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 72.
1966.38
Sicilian Globular Squat Lekythos
From the Woite Collection; probably from the area of Gela, Sicily. Ht 6cm; diam. 5.5cm.
Intact. Pinkish buff clay. Globular body with broad flat base. The vase was dipped in glaze to cover the upper half of the vase but the air pressure prevented the glaze from entering far within the mouth. Most of the glaze has now worn away.
The form of the mouth, which is of cup type, may suggest a date in the sixth century BC.
See 1966.01-1966.42 in this catalogue for all material from the Woite Collection in the ANU collection.
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U. (Canberra, 1981) 72.