Acquisition number: 2009.03
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Intact but the surface is worn and incrusted. Pale, greyish-cream clay with fine dark inclusions. Everted lip, flat on the upper face. Horizontal handles of circular section, vertically inclined, on the shoulder. There is a knob in the centre of the shoulder on each side. Flat base, crudely finished at the bottom of the wall. Unpainted.
Title: Stamnoid Jar - 2009.03.3
Acquisition number: 2009.03
Culture or period: Punic.
Date: Phases V-VI (Late Hellenistic to Roman).
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Vessels - Jar
Dimensions: 159mm (h)
Origin region or location: Malta
Display case or on loan: 2
Keywords: Maltese, Punic
C. Sagona, Mediterranean Archaeology 9-10, 1996-97, 43 no. 19.
2009.03.3
Stamnoid jar
Ht 15.9cm.
(Parliament of Australia inventory number 01/0069.001)
Intact but the surface is worn and incrusted. Pale, greyish-cream clay with fine dark inclusions. Everted lip, flat on the upper face. Horizontal handles of circular section, vertically inclined, on the shoulder. There is a knob in the centre of the shoulder on each side. Flat base, crudely finished at the bottom of the wall. Unpainted.
Sagona notes that such pieces are not commonly found in Maltese tombs; she puts it tentatively in Phases V-VI (Late Hellenistic to Roman).
C. Sagona, Mediterranean Archaeology 9-10, 1996-97, 43 no. 19.
Parliament of Australia.
Parliament Dr, Canberra ACT 2600.