Apulian kylix of the ‘Palmette Cross’-type, the shallow bowl with four stamped palmettes and linking arcs at center.
The inside rim is offset from the floor as usual with cups dating to the 4th century BC.
For a related cup cf. item no. 103 in: John W. Hayes. Greek and Italian Black-Gloss Wares and Related Wares in the Royal Ontario M ...click for details
Black-glazed kylix of shallow curved bowl with handles attached quite below the rim. The cup is standing on a bulged ring foot.
On the floor the ‘ghost’ of a youth standing in graceful pose and encircled by concentric lines. The young man is leaning back a little, his right arm is outstretched, with the left he is holding a staff.
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Greek Gnathia ware dish with shallow floor and gently raised lip. The partially faded black glaze with three almost preserved dolphins encircling a central flower.
The dolphins rendered in applied white color with their backs and tail fins ‘gilded’ with dilute ochre.
Ceramic
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Serene female head with finely modeled facial features. The elongated head shows a prominent nose, fleshy lips and a round chin. The heavy lids narrow her eyes to slits. The free-modeled hairdo is parted at center and topped by a crown.
The head orientates on Hellenistic types and is most likely from Egypt.
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Polychrome wood mask and upper headcloth from an anthropoid coffin. The light red-brown face with a serene smile, the large eyes are rendered with cosmetic lines. Eyes and eyebrows painted black, the striated headdress enhanced yellow and green.
Wood
Egyptian, Late Period, 712-332 BC
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Rare variant of Isis-Demeter seated on a throne. The goddess is wearing a chiton and a richly folded cloak with a floral wreath and grain ears across the chest. She is holding a staff (torch?) with her right hand. A small bag suspended from her left wrist.
The head with chubby features, beady eyes and purse lips. Severan style melon hairdo with sidelocks falling along the shoulders. Large earrings. The head framed b ...click for details
Egyptian swallow standing on two short feet and folded wings. The mouthpiece of a whistle on the bird’s tail; the sharp edge to direct the airstream is incorporated in the vent hole beneath the body.
The item shows black painted details like the eye-line, collar around the chest and wings.
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Molded pottery rooster standing on a conical base. Crest and beak rendered with impressed lines. The bird’s drumstick and claws neatly discernible.
For the same shape although slightly larger cf. cat. no. 646 in: E. Bayer-Niemeier. Bildwerke der Sammlung Kaufmann. Vol. 1. Griechisch-römische Terrakotten. Melsungen, 1988.
Terracotta
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Youthful head with heavy-lidded eyes, small angular nose and pouty lips.
The elaborate coiffure surrounded by a stippled and ribboned floral wreath. The straight hair drawn back behind the youth’s large ears.
Terracotta
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Flat-bottomed aryballos with two neatly incised male busts showing big eyes and pointed chins. The hair is tied in a tuft (krobylos) by a fillet and falls gently along the shoulder.
The busts alternate with geese. Rosettes in the field. Radiating strokes on shoulder and rim.
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