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Beige with a blue design
1 handle

Off white with brown lines and circles

Reddish colour with light slip. Shape: two loop handles on either side attached at shoulder; wide, globular body with convex neck that tapers at the rim; footed base. Composition: on one side is pictured a single hare, on each side of which is…

Cypriot vessel with a tri-foil lip.

Shape: pedestal foot in two degrees; surface of plate is concave, inclining towards a depression in the centre, surrounded by a groove; the center of the depression is raised; the lip turns out prominently. Fabric colour is beige. The plate depicts…

The artefact is a small lekythos painted in the red-figure style. Its mouth, handle and top-half of its neck are painted in black. The bottom-half of the neck has a pattern of descending vertical lines leading into an ogive pattern on the shoulder.…

Ceramic material with dull black finish.
Olive leaf band painted between handles (Dionysiac connection).
Dramatic masks in relief at apex of both handles (Dionysiac connection).
Originally described as a kantharos but more closely resembles an…

Black glazed lamp with raised handle and protruding nozzle. Circular, wheel-thrown body with a concave top and a large filling hole. The rim of the filling hole has a thin raised edge. Tall, vertical loop handle attached at the top of the body. Large…

Samian, terra sigillata
Red/brown in colour.
Has more of a sharper curve, not as round.
No design on the outside, has a bit of a design on the handles, some well defined lines can be seen.
Lines around the neck can be found.
Some white/grey clay or…

Dragendorf Form 18/31
Ceramic material with red gloss (terra sigillata)
Dish has warped lip - a second (?)
Originally sold as stampd by luventius
Illegible stamp
Foot Interior Has Sticker reads "CANTERBURY" VAUXHALL March 15, 1871 (Auction house)

The Greek heroes Ajax and Achilles are shown engaged in a board game with dice; the goddess Athena stands in the center behind the figures, presiding. The border above the composition is adorned with a pattern of dots, and the shoulder with a pattern…

One Attic black figure Lekythos.
In two pieces - Pieces do not match.
Ceramic material with black figures and decoration.
One handle.
Details in decoration are picked out with incision.
Main decoration shows rider driving a biga (driver wears a white…

Shape: sides widen and then narrows, one loop handle
Materials: clay
Construction: wheel-made
Colour: black
Details: plain bowl, has small flat base from which sides widen outward then the sides narrow, making a ridge and small lip. The handle is…

An elongated oval lamp made of red terracotta, with a perforated handle on one end and a short, wide nozzle on the other end. The decorative shoulder has a band of slanting incisions running along the edge. The discus motif displays a bird, likely a…

A black ople with one handle. The body is adorned with a series of ribbed bands; the stem between the foot and body is painted red. The foot is carinated, defining three profile moldings.

Type I Fatimid lamp; globular body on a slightly concave foot with an incised ring inside; single, rectangular shaped nozzle; single, small looped handle without a nib. Evidence of presumed tall neck with straight flaring sides. Turquoise-glazed…

Materials: clay
Construction: hand-made
Colour: black
Details: has flat base, sides widen to the bely where a ridge is formed as the sides narrow beyond, then the side widens again and gently decreases to the lip. At the point where the sides widen…

Shape: round
Material: clay
Construction: wheel-made
Colour: brown clay, drak brown slip
Details: large size base little height. Dish has large circle in the middle at the bottom and two circles around it. On the inside and outside edge of lip has…

Type G post-Fatimid lamp; spheroidal, slightly flattened and squat body on a well-pronounced, slightly concave foot with a single, slightly raised nozzle. Turquoise-glazed inside and out; worn under base. Glazing is smooth and glossy. Unusual glazing…

Type I Fatimid lamp; globular body on a slightly concave foot with an incised ring inside; single, slightly raised rectangular shaped nozzle. Evidence of presumed tall neck with flaring rim. Turquoise-glazed inside and out; worn under base. Glazing…

One Attic black figure lekythos.
Ceramic material with black figures and decoration.
Decoration shows horse and rider flanked by three figure, a hare stands under the horse and rider on its hind legs - possibly a hunting scene.
Shoulders are…

Black beaked