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GrB033
Greek bronze piriform jug.
6th-4th century BC
H. 18 cm (7 1/8 in.)
Hairline crack and hole filling near the base, otherwise perfect. Fine bluish-green patina.
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The jug with piriform body with flat base and long widening cylindrical neck with everted rim.
Decorated with protruding vertical ribs from below the shoulder to above the base, beginning and ending in an incised decoration of small arches. Around the shoulder a circular incised chain-like pattern of attached rings forming sequential “S” shapes. Above it, at the base of the neck, an incised pattern of elongated double arches. In between the incised ornaments there is a convex widening around the base of the neck.

Cf. (in Hebrew):
Stern, E., Jerusalem, 1973, p.147, צ.238 (first vessel on the right).

For silver sprinkler of similar design:
Cf. Yaloris, N., The Search for Alexander. An Exhibition. Exh. cat., Boston, 1980, p. 157, fig. 111.


Yaloris, N., The Search for Alexander. An Exhibition. Exh. cat., Boston, 1980

(Hebrew) Stern, E., The Material Culture of the Land of the Bible in the Persian Period 538-332 B.C.E., The Bialik Institute and the Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, 1973.

 

 


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