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
Acquisition source or name: Woite Collection.
Acquisition year: 1966
Owner type: ANU Classics Museum
Culture or period: Sicilian Black, Banded and Plain.
Date: Second half 4th century BC.
Date century or Timeline (notional): 399 to 300
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.
1966.30
Sicilian plain juglet
Of a shape common in the tombs of Eastern Sicily in this period
c. 2nd half 4th century BC
From the Woite Collection.
Intact.