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Cypriot Early Bronze Age large pottery cup
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Pre AD 1000 item# 878938 (stock# C23)
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UK Pounds - £200.00
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A pale red slip coated pottery hemispherical bowl mounted with a tall wish-bone shaped handle and three protruding lugs around the rim.
Cyprus, Early Bronze Age, 2500-1900 BC
Repaired from several large pieces, some patches of painted plaster infill along the edge of the rim.
Size: 15 x 15.2 cms (including handle)
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. Th ...click for details
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Greek pottery lydion vase
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Pre AD 1000 item# 873934 (stock# G44)
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UK Pounds - £600.00
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A fine pottery lydion shaped vase covered with a bright orange glazed slip which has been applied with wavy brushed patterns.
This elegant form of vessel was used to package and export a highly valued perfume called baccaris for which Sardis was well known.
Greek colony of Sardis in Asia Minor, 6th Century BC
Intact with light surface abrasion
Size: 10.5 x 10.5 cms
Formerly in the collection of a museum employee, Oxford, UK.
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Egyptian pottery ship model
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Pre AD 1000 item# 871423 (stock# E5)
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UK Pounds - £160.00
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A pottery model of a boat or ship with a tall pointed prow and squared-off stern. The top of both the sides are pierced and may have held attachments for wooden oars. A rectangular section of the deck has been cut away, perhaps to contain a votive offering made by a sailor before a voyage.
Egypt, Roman period, c. 1st Century AD
Some chips as seen in the photographs, otherwise intact
Size: 7 x 10.3 cms
Ex. private collection, Cheshire, UK.
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Egyptian faience Duamutef plaque
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Pre AD 1000 item# 860278 (stock# E67)
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UK Pounds - £100.00
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A dark blue glazed faience plaque moulded in the form of the standing jackal-headed deity Duamutef. This plaque is from a series of four pieces representing the Four Sons of Horus which would have been sewn into the bandages of a mummy across the chest area.
Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 730-332 BC
Intact
Size: 4.1 x 1.1 cms
Ex. private collection, Sweden; acquired between 1940-1960.
Mounted on a small black painted display block.
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Cypriot Early Bronze Age pottery bowl
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Pre AD 1000 item# 842251 (stock# C8)
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UK Pounds - £180.00
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A pale red pottery hemispherical bowl with a lightly burnished surface and a single lug handle decorated to the top with a vertical slit.
Cyprus, Early Bronze Age, 2500-1900 BC
Intact apart from an insignificant crack on one side of the rim.
Size: 7.5 x 11.5 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 anti ...click for details
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Hellenistic or Roman mammiform pottery cup
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Pre AD 1000 item# 824149 (stock# G27)
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An elegant red slip pottery cup in the form of a breast with the base terminating in a nipple shaped protrusion (not visible in the photographs).
The exact purpose of this unusual shape is not known but it seems logical to assume that it was used for serving milk in one form or another.
Hellenistic or early Roman, c. 1st Century BC/AD
One almost invisible repair, general surface wear as seen in the photographs
Size: 8.8 x 11.5 cms
Ex. Private collection, Germany. Acquired 1960's / 1970 ...click for details
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