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Small storage box for cosmetics, trinkets or jewelry. Black-glaze decoration on red ground; decorative friezes and solid horizontal bands encircle the exterior wall of lid; in the upper zone, an ogive pattern, beneath which is a narrow horizontal…

A fragment of papyrus mounted in a paper frame.

A fragment of papyrus mounted in a paper frame.

A fragment of papyrus mounted in a paper frame.

Rhys Tushingham: Ceramic disc with engraved symbols in a spiral pattern, made to replicate the Phaistos disc exhibited at the Heraklion museum (https://www.heraklionmuseum.gr/en/collections/#collections, accession number Π-Ν1358). Unlike the…

Shape: flat-based jug with single loop handle attached at rim and widest diameter of the body; the side opposite the handle is decorated with a protome of a ram, extending from just below the rim; the animal has a long neck and large eyes; the…

Statuette of the Egyptian Pschent (double crown). The form widens upwards from a round base, and is tallest at the back, representing the white crown. Inset about 5 cm from the bottom, the shape narrows into a sphere with a round protrusion at the…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. Pyramidal loom weights are by far the most common type found in Italy in the first millennium BCE. This loom weight should…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. Pyramidal loom weights are by far the most common type found in Italy in the first millennium BCE. This loom weight should…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. Pyramidal loom weights are by far the most common type found in Italy in the first millennium BCE. This loom weight should…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. Pyramidal loom weights are by far the most common type found in Italy in the first millennium BCE. This loom weight should…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. Pyramidal loom weights are by far the most common type found in Italy in the first millennium BCE. This loom weight should…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. Pyramidal loom weights are by far the most common type found in Italy in the first millennium BCE. This loom weight should…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. Pyramidal loom weights are by far the most common type found in Italy in the first millennium BCE. This loom weight should…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. Pyramidal loom weights are by far the most common type found in Italy in the first millennium BCE. This loom weight should…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. Pyramidal loom weights are by far the most common type found in Italy in the first millennium BCE. This loom weight should…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. Pyramidal loom weights are by far the most common type found in Italy in the first millennium BCE. This loom weight should…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. Pyramidal loom weights are by far the most common type found in Italy in the first millennium BCE. This loom weight should…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. Pyramidal loom weights are by far the most common type found in Italy in the first millennium BCE. This loom weight should…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. This loom weight should be dated to the Archaic or Classical period on the basis of comparison to other loom weights from…

Loom weights are used to keep the warp (vertical) threads of the warp-weighted loom pulled tight and in place during weaving. This loom weight should be dated to the Archaic or Classical period on the basis of comparison to other loom weights from…

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 surface has a central tondo, in which is displayed a female head in profile, with hair tied in a bun and held in place by a kekryphalos (hair net) highlighted with white and ochre paint. Below her chin is a small libation bowl, behind her head, a…

The surface has a central tondo, in which is displayed a maenad in profile seated on what appears to be a rocky outcropping (heavily stylized), with hair swept up, and partly covered and held in place by a jeweled sakkos. She wears a diaphanous…

The front displays a female head in profile, with hair tied in a bun, and covered by a kekryphalos. The back displays a large palmette located beneath the vertical pouring handle attached at neck; florals extend from each side of the palmette,…