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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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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)

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

Cypriot vessel with a tri-foil lip.

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…

Off white with brown lines and circles

Beige with a blue design
1 handle

One clay Villanovan spot.
Material: clay
Colour: dark grey
Shape: open mouth vessel with flared rim.
Slightly flared neckleads to a sharply rounded body that drastically narrows inwards to end at a flay base.
Double ribbed handles on either…

Off white with brown and reddish-brown circls

Red polished ware formed by hand, with a red slipped surface polished to a medium-high lustre. Small lug protrudes from the belly of the juglet, sometimes referred to as a ‘nipple projection’, and possibly associated with fertility. Incised with…

A wide and flat piece of marble with a drawing etched into a face.

Fragment of a lanx. Broken on three sides, with one side having an intact rim. Outward facing side has a relief of a running rabbit, and the head of another animal.