Amphora Rim with Punic Stamp
VesselsPunic3rd-2nd century BCE

Amphora Rim with Punic Stamp

300-146 BCE

Description

Fabric is Tunisian, orange-red in color. Rim is trumpet-shaped. Stamp is on the exterior of the rim. Stamp is square, 1.55 cm: in center, a caduceus, right top, lamed (l) in its rare form with an extra downward stroke at the top, below, tet (t) the sign of royalty, left, taw (t). Early Roman amphora type II (Carthage, University of Michigan type series, 1975), local imitation of Phoenician form.

Classification
Vessels
Technique
Stamped
Medium
Terracotta
Culture
Punic
Period
Hellenistic period
Century
3rd-2nd century BCE
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Department
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

H. 12.7 cm

Provenance

Horton O'Neil, Carthage 1924-1925, gift; to Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 1965, transfer; to Harvard Art Museums, 2008

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