Attic Black-Glaze Small Bowl or Salt Cellar
1912.01.0022
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Basic Information
| Artifact Identification | Attic Black-Glaze Small Bowl or Salt Cellar (1912.01.0022) |
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| Classification/ Nomenclature |
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| Artist/Maker | None |
| Geographic Location | |
| Period/Date | 26th Dynasty, 425 – 400 BCE |
| Culture | Greek - Attic, Graeco-Egyptian |
Physical Analysis
| Dimension 1 (Diameter) | 9.2 cm |
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| Dimension 2 (Depth) | 2.8 cm |
| Dimension 3 (N/A) | N/A |
| Weight | 81 g |
| Measuring Remarks | None |
| Materials | Pigment--Slip, Ceramic--Terracotta |
| Manufacturing Processes | Throwing, Firing |
| Munsell Color Information | Black (N 2/ 3.1% R) -Black slip. Moderate Yellowish Pink (5YR 8/4) -Light clay body. Light Grayish Brown (5YR 6.5/3) -Dark clay body. |
Research Remarks
| Published Description | Attic Back-Glaze Small Bowl or Salt Cellar Shape and Ornament - Convex body with incurving rim, disk foot. Fully glazed, except for two bands on underside of foot. Dimensions and Condition - H. 0.028 m.; d. body 0.092 m. Tan clay, glossy black glaze very worn and abraded. About 425 - 400 B.C. -- Wisseman, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Plate 35, 1. |
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| Description | N/A |
| Comparanda | Spurlock Museum 1912.01.0023, 1912.01.0024 Royal Ontario Museum 919.5.71 (Hayes, Greek and Italian Black-gloss Wares and Related Wares in the Royal Ontario Museum, 1984. Pp. 40-41, no. 66, with additional comparanda). Copenhagen 7626 (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Copenhague 4 [Danemark 4], p. 140, pl. 179 : 4) and Copenhagen 7625, 478 (ibid., p. 139, pl. 177 : 9-10) Agora P 8950 (Sparkes and Talcott, The Athenian Agora vol. 12: Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th, and 4th Centuries B.C., 1970. Pp. 133-134, 297, no. 850, pl. 33). |
| Bibliography | James, T.G.H. Excavating in Egypt: The Egypt Exploration Society 1882-1982. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Wisseman, Sarah U. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Philipp von Zabern: Mainz, 1989. Page 32, Plate 35, 1. PETRIE, W. M. F., Naukratis. Part I., 1884-5. Third Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1886. GARDNER, E. A., Naukratis, Part II. Sixth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1888. Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt, The British Museum (online catalogue) |
Artifact History
| Archaeological Data | N/A |
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| Credit Line/Dedication | Egypt Exploration Society |
| Reproduction | no |
| Reproduction Information | N/A |