Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
$1,500.00
Light-red fabric with inclusions, heavily worn lead glaze in olive-green to brown with white slip inside and out. Cylindrical body with wide low foot and mouldings on underside. Rim slightly inset, several grooves below lip on exterior. Loop handles with lower handle-spurs and horizontal handle-plates decorated with a recessed line along the perimeter and terminated in volutes. Mould-made relief decoration on each side: crater flanked by Eros with torch and Eros facing right; leaf motif in background. Mended with some minor patching. H. 2.3″ (5.8 cm), W. 5.6″ (14.4 cm).
See: A. Hochuli-Gysel. Kleinasiatische glasierte Reliefkeramik(Acta Bernensia VII), Bern, 1977, pls. 57-59; H.Goldman, ed., Excavations at Gözlii Tepe, Tarsus I., The Hellenistic and Roman Periods, Princeton, 1950, 191.