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- Shallow, rectangular inkwell with a well in each corner. Two are partial, two allow access to the cavity of the well. Light brown clay (Muns. 7.5 YR 6/4). Hollow moulded and painted red. There is a hole in the bottom.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- Reddish micaceous clay with poor red to black glaze. Rounded nozzle flanked by double volutes which do not encroach on grooved rim. On discus, Hercules proceeding to left in combat, nude, lion skin held in left hand, club raised over head in right hand. Handle broken off. Base ring set off by grooves.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- Bulla in fair condition. Hollow shell shaped bowl with folded tube for attachment. Dark, pitted surface. Perhaps from a statue. Heavy green crystalline corrosion in places. Gazda: Bulla (amuletic locket). Bronze.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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- Thin rectangular slab; finely crushed texture (breccia?) of pale gray and brown mixed with specks of white and pale pink-brown, colors all very dull; a few short little streaks of dark gray; green stain (?) along two edges. Broken into 2 pieces and glued together so can hardly see break. Mr. Sellard’s father received it from J.P. Morgan.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- Gazda: Four-pronged drag-hoe (rastrum). Iron, wood splinters.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- A note on a slip of paper says “arenaria antica volcano da vesuvio, come una ceneve maduro come il disastro”.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- Relativeley thin slab of dull blood red with thin streaks of white.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- Horned handle. Bowl warped on firing so it is elliptical not circular at rim. Hand-made: Coarse brownish clay with thick cream-white slip. Dark brown matte paint fired red-brown on lower half. Rim: short strokes above a lattice band (interrupted above handle) from which hand lattice bands alternating with bands of lattice lozenges is shorter. On upper side of handle: four dots between the pair on each side. Wavy line on underside. Bands at junctures of handle with bowl. Talalay: Milk bowl. Clay, White-Slip II Ware.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
- Notes:
- Reserved parts washed with red. At center of interior is a male head with large nose and drooping mustache; frontal. Surrounded by six palmettes; around the latter is a chain of seven mandorlas (Each formed by two mutually concave arcs of a line between two rows of dots). The whole framed by six rings of roulette hatching. Said to be from Cumae.; Gazda: Bowl. Clay, black gloss.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
