You are considering a very attractive and rare ancient highly decorated pottery jar with lid and two handles, cylindircal shaped neck, flat shoulder and a decorated base
Greek - Hellenistic period, 330 - 100 BC
Time of Alexander the Great
An ancient Greek face plate of a warrior’s shield "Shield boss", constructed of a thin hammered sheet with triple concentric circles stepped form, some remains of iron pin attachments. Minor edge roughness and losses, otherwise exc. cond.
such shields as this would have been used by the Greeks in their battles with the persians in their aspiration to gain control of the Middle-East ...click for details
