Acquisition number: 1966.31
Intact. Creamish pink-buff clay. Round mouth; strap handle rising slightly above the level of the lip; flat base. Unpainted.
Title: Sicilian Plain Juglet - 1966.31
Acquisition number: 1966.31
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: Second half 4th century BC.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Jug/wine jug
Dimensions: 69mm (w) × 89mm (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.
1966.31
Sicilian Plain Juglet
From the Woite Collection; probably from the area of Gela, Sicily. Ht (lip) 8.9cm; diam. 6.9cm.
Intact. Creamish pink-buff clay. Round mouth; strap handle rising slightly above the level of the lip; flat base. Unpainted.
Compare 1966.30 and Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1966, 270 fig. 63i-j from Assoro and dated to the later fourth century bc; also and of the same date Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1955, 306 fig. 22, 4 (Lentini) and Monumenti Antichi 46, 1963, 198 and pl. VI, 2472 (Agrigento).
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.