Acquisition number: 1966.37
The neck and mouth have been broken and re-joined. Friable coarse grey clay that has probably been subject to secondary firing. Pierced lug handles on the shoulder; flat base.
Title: Sicilian Plain Amphoriskos - 1966.37
Acquisition number: 1966.37
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: 5th - 4th century BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Amphoriskos
Dimensions: 72mm (w) × 91mm (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.
1966.37
Sicilian Plain Amphoriskos
From the Woite Collection; probably from the area of Gela, Sicily. Ht 9.1cm; diam. 7.2cm.
The neck and mouth have been broken and re-joined. Friable coarse grey clay that has probably been subject to secondary firing. Pierced lug handles on the shoulder; flat base.
Miniature versions of the amphora were often used in the fifth and fourth centuries as containers for perfume (compare the glass example 1971.07) and in this case the lug handles seem to have been designed to take cords from which to suspend it.
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.