Acquisition number: 1966.30
Intact. Cream-buff clay. Round mouth, the rim somewhat out-turned; strap handle rising slightly above the level of the lip; flat base. Unpainted.
Title: Sicilian Plain Juglet - 1966.30
Acquisition number: 1966.30
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: Second half 4th century BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Jug/wine jug
Dimensions: 84mm (w) × 86mm (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) 71.
1966.30
Sicilian Plain Juglet
From the Woite Collection; probably from the area of Gela, Sicily. Ht (lip) 8.6cm; diam. 8.4cm.
Intact. Cream-buff clay. Round mouth, the rim somewhat out-turned; strap handle rising slightly above the level of the lip; flat base. Unpainted.
This is a common shape in the tombs of Eastern Sicily in the fourth century. Compare Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1966, 243 fig. 19b-e from Assoro, dated to the second half of the fourth 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) 71.