Acquisition number: 2009.03
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The neck has been broken and rejoined; some chips are missing from the lip; there is some incrustation on the surface. Pale yellow-buff clay, redder in the breaks. The foot is slightly hollowed on the underside.
Title: Unguentarium - 2009.03.9
Acquisition number: 2009.03
Culture or period: Punic.
Date: Phase V: Late Hellenistic to Early Roman.
Material: Clay - Terracotta
Object type: Unguentarium
Dimensions: 172mm (h)
Origin region or location: Malta
Display case or on loan: 2
Keywords: Maltese, Punic
C. Sagona, Mediterranean Archaeology 9-10, 1996-97, 42 no. 12.
2009.03.9
Unguentarium
Ht 17.2cm.
(Parliament of Australia inventory number 01/0069.008)
The neck has been broken and rejoined; some chips are missing from the lip; there is some incrustation on the surface. Pale yellow-buff clay, redder in the breaks. The foot is slightly hollowed on the underside.
Of more elongated form than 2009.03.8 and somewhat later. Sagona places it in Phase V: Late Hellenistic to Early Roman.
C. Sagona, Mediterranean Archaeology 9-10, 1996-97, 42 no. 12.
Parliament of Australia.
Parliament Dr, Canberra ACT 2600.