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Cypriot Early Bronze Age burnished slip jug
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Pre AD 1000 item# 1163696 (stock# C34)
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A pottery jug with a wide mouth, rounded handle and squat globular belly; the surface retains extensive traces of grey/red burnished slip.
Cyprus, Early Bronze Age, 2500-1900 BC
Body repaired from two pieces, extensive wear to the surface burnish as seen in the photographs
Size: 13.1 x 9.7
Ex. private collection, Germany; acquired mid 20th Century. Old collection number on base: MPB37.
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Cypriot Middle Bronze Age pottery jug
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Pre AD 1000 item# 1163695 (stock# C39)
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A pottery jug with a spherical body and a single arched handle, the surface is covered in a buff red slip.
Cyprus, Middle Bronze Age, 1900-1650 BC
Some losses on the rim, a hole on one side of the body and general surface encrustation.
Size: 17.6 x 12 cms
Ex. collection: Jorgen Jacobsen, Bornholm, Denmark. Acquired while on UN duty with the Danish peace-keeping forces on Cyprus (Dancon X/XI) between October 1968 and October 1969. This item is part of a large collection of Cypriot ant ...click for details
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Roman lamp with rare Aegipan depiction
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Pre AD 1000 item# 1154907 (stock# R84)
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A brown slip coated pottery oil lamp decorated with a rare mythological scene depicting Venus or a nymph riding Aegipan. The base is incised with three stylised palm fronds.
Aegipan is associated with the stellar constellation Capricorn, he was related to Pan and thus part goat and part human but had the tail of a fish.
Roman, 2nd Century AD
Repaired from several pieces with some losses around the nozzle
Size: 10.3 x 7.2 cms
Ex. private collection, Lincolnshire, UK.
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