Low bodied Attic jug with horizontal flanges at the belly and the base. The beaked spout flanked by two applied knobs rendered as rotelles. The high-swung strap handle from neck to shoulder.
The cushion shaped top with five delicate palmette stamps linked by very fine incised arcs.
The reserved incurving area between the flanges and the broad flat base show the distinct orange-red color of Attic clay.
For a related Atticizing epichysis from Northern Apulia cf. item no...

Two dishes with rounded wall and slightly incurved rim. One with pitted black glaze, standing on a bulged foot. The other unglazed.
Two more unglazed dishes with straight floor and bulged rim.
Ceramic
Campanian, late 4th century BC
D. 7.2 cm (2.8 in) to 12 cm (4.7 in)
Intact. Black glaze with surface wear, all with surface wear.
Swiss private collection...

Hand-modeled bowl of hemispherical body with a single handle at the rim. The base rounded.
The burnished surface with a red-brown slip and purple-red bands of wavy lines that form a cross on both the inner and outer surface. Purple-red lines on the handle.
For a related example, cf. British Museum database no. 1884,1210.103.
Ceramic
Middle Cypriot ,1850 BC-1550 BC
D. 15.4 cm (6.1 in)
W. over handle 18.4 cm (7.2 in)
H...

Rare Apulian kalathos with cylindrical body widening to a flared mouth. The rim set off by incised grooves, the foot with three rounded ridges. The inside of the base with a red wash.
Decorated with brown glaze shading to black. The finger marks just above the ring foot show that the vessel was dipped into the glaze.
The kalathos is a vase associated to the female sphere and stands for abundance and fertility...

A very attractive and exquisite ancient Phoenician massive pottery trading vessel over 2,800 years old that sank in the Mediterranean sea with two handles, pointed base, wide mouth and a short rim enjoying a great looking sea encrustation shells patina

This wine transport amphora dates from 900 - 600 BC

Measurements: Height: 45 cm – Width: 31 cm – Height on stand: 50 cm

Condition: Untouched, not repaired and restored as shown

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Black-glazed dish of shallow form with thick wall, comprising a small offset between the rounded lip and the foot. Shallow rounded floor.
Warm brownish gloss with fingermarks around the base, where held during dipping. Black all over with reserved bottom.
Fine light beige clay, very much depurated and hard fired. Possibly of northern Campania production.
Closely related to Beazley Archive vase no. 9006509
Ceramic
Campanian, 350-300 BC
D...

Large tan colored kantharos decorated with ivy tendrils ending in corymbs. A checkerboard band with circular incisions underneath. Bands of brownish glaze at the rim, the rounded bowl and the flared foot...

Tall glazed skyphos with swelling wall, the lower part tapers towards a torus foot.
The horseshoe-shaped handles attached just below the slightly flared rim.
Resting surface and underside reserved; the bottom with applied red wash. Extraordinary silvery glaze.
For a slightly smaller example, cf. 4373c1 in: Jean-Paul Morel. Céramique Campanienne: Les Formes. Rome 1981.
Ceramic
Apulian, 300-280 BC
H. 12 cm
D. 11.4 cm
W...

Single-handled vase with cushion-shaped body and an inward folding rim to prevent the liquid from spilling out. Standing on a ring foot.
The black glaze turned red on the inside and around the foot. The shape is also known as kothon or plemochoe (on hight foot).
Ceramic
Greek, 5th century BC
D. 13.8 cm (5.4 cm)
W. over handle 16.7 cm (6.6 in)
H. 5.7 cm (2.2 in)
Intact and fine, black glaze worn in places, surface on the inside partially chipped. ...

DECORATED POTTERY OIL LAMP
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, 3rd Century BC

Dimensions:
Length: 8 cm
Width: 6 cm

Condition: Good condition as found

Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel

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POTTERY WINE PITCHER
Greek - Hellenistic, 300 - 100 BC
Time of Alexander the Great

Beautifully made with a shaped neck, rim folded outwards and a ring base

Dimensions:
Height: 21 cm
Diameter: 17 cm
Height on stand: 24 cm

Condition: Good condition as found

Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Holy Land

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TERRACOTTA PERFUME JAR
GREEK - HELLENISTIC PERIOD 330 - 50 BC
"Time of Alexander the Great"

Globular body with a ring base and a shaped neck folded outwards

Measurements:
Height: 13 cm
Diameter: 12 cm
Height on stand: 17.5 cm

Condition: Minor repair hard to see otherwise intact

Found in Hebron south “City of Abraham” south of Jerusalem, Holy Land

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Black glazed kylix with ring foot and two horizontal loop handles. The rim is slightly offset.
Narrow reserved band immediately above the foot ring. Reserved base with a large reddish-black dot at center. Reserved reserved handle-panels.
Inspired by Attic pottery production. For an example from Boeotia, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 9035968.
Ceramic
Greek, from Athens, 450-400 BC
H. 5.3 cm (2.1 in)
D. 11.1 cm (4.4 in)
W. over handles 17 cm (6.7 in)...

Attractive black-glazed oinochoe with trefoil spout and arched handle. The neck area decorated with grape bunches alternating with tendrils. Black glaze turned red-brown in places. Standing on a small ring foot.
For a related example, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 1001099.
Ceramic
Apulian, Knudsen Group, 320-300 BC
H. 10.8 cm (4.3 in)
Traces of fingertips around the ring foot. Intact and fine. Black glaze turned red-brown in places.
Swiss private collect...

Attractive black-glazed oinochoe with trefoil spout and arched handle. The neck area decorated with grape wine and tendril motifs suspended from bands. The applied white color partially ‘gilded’ with a yellow ochre wash.
Fingerprints around the foot indicate that the vase was dipped into the glaze.
For a related example, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 1001099.
Ceramic
Greek, Gnathian, around 300 BC
H. 11.5 cm (4.5 in)
Intact. Trefoil mouth chipped. Exc...

Native Apulian jug of globular body with tapering neck, everted rim and strap handle. The body, the neck and the outside of the base with circumferential bands of brown glaze. Top of the rim and outside of the handle also glazed. Standing on a flat disk base.
The Messapians were a South Italian tribe settled in the Salento area. Related to the Peucetes and the Daunians they belonged to the group of the Iapyges. These populations created important urban centers and had rather difficult rel...

Fine quality bowl with five half open lotus flowers impressed on the inside floor.
Bowl of rounded profile curving up sharply to a slightly incurved rim. Standing on a low rounded foot with beveled molding.
For similar stamps, cf. Beazley Archive database, vase no. 9006433.

Ceramic
Greek Campanian, 3rd century BC
D. 17 cm (6.7 in)
H. 6.6 cm (2.6 in)
Intact apart from minor abrasion. Black lustrous gloss, partially turned red on the outside....

Large black-figure skyphos decorated with reclining men facing rams. Female attendants on either side walk away as they look back.
The men rest on mats, their elbows propped on pillows, three loaves of bread at their sides. The men are of different ages, the older one has a beard.
Both wear the petasos, the hat of travelers and farmers, and are dressed in a white chiton and a heavy himation decorated with red dots.
The rams in front of them show incisions and details in appl...