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13.10.4A-B Two slightly concave disks, not joined (although they sit together well). The lid is thinner than the base with no significant rim, but a beveled edge. The mirror itself has a rim on the underside, and an offset edge on the upper part. These are clearly two parts of a Hellenistic mirror with lid, typical of Hellenistic cyprus. A pair of bronze plates could be locked together because one mirror had a low cylindrical rim into which the other, with a flanged edge, could be fitted. The inside mirror is decorated on the recessed side and polished on the flat side. The outside mirror is polished on the recessed side and sometimes decorated on the flat side. The two polished sides would then lie together, sometimes plated with silver (as in the case of an example in Amathus tomb 62, published in Excavations in Cyprus). For the Greek prototypes see See A. Schwarzmaier, Griechische Klappspiegel: Untersuchungen zu Typologie und Stil (Berlin 1997).
2018.6.1 A writing tablet, with bored holes that evidence the hinge whereby it was once attached, with a cord, to a second tablet. It was once inlaid with a wax surface, within a rectangular frame, on which the writer would have scratched words with a stylus. The wax has worn away or been removed from our tablet, whereupon each side was painted white, on which ancient Greek words were written.
26.2.11 Rim sherd of East Greek (North Ionian) pottery rosette bowl;
26.2.14 Rim and shoulder sherd of East Greek (North Ionian?) pottery cup with part of handle root;
26.2.25 Upper body sherd of East Greek pottery open vessel, probably a krater or a large bowl;
26.2.29 Lower body sherd of East Greek pottery open vessel, plate or shallow bowl;
26.2.30 Rim and body sherd of East Greek pottery plate;
26.2.33 Rim sherd of East Greek pottery plate;
26.2.42 Body sherd of East Greek pottery, closed vessel, possibly an amphora;
26.2.45 Body sherd of East Greek Late Wild Goat Style pottery closed vessel, amphora or oinochoe;
26.2.5 Rim and body sherd (three joining but not mended fragments) of East Greek (North Ionian) pottery rosette bowl;
26.2.6 Rim and body sherd (mended from two fragments) of East Greek (North Ionian) pottery rosette bowl with handle;
26.2.73 Rim sherd of East Greek pottery deep cup;
26.2.78 Neck and shoulder sherd of East Greek pottery open vessel, possibly a krater;
26.2.8 Base and foot sherd of East Greek pottery open vessel, bowl or plate;
26.2.80 Rim sherd of East Greek Polychrome pottery dinos;
26.2.81 Upper body sherd of East Greek Black Polychrome pottery dinos or krater;
26.2.84 Shoulder and handle sherd (mended from two fragments) of probably East Greek pottery closed vessel, hydria or stamnos;
26.2.9 Wall and foot sherd of East Greek (North Ionian) pottery bowl;
65.6.1 The mouth is conical, the handle is of ellipsoid cross-section and the foot is disk-shaped. Cf. 'The Red and the Black: Studies in Greek pottery' by B. A. Sparks, 1996, p20 fig I:12 (see also 'Comments' field).
L.2018.4.3 Memnon stands in the rigid posture of some Archaic Greek statues, with one leg slightly advanced.Stanford has depicted him arms missing, as if broken off. The small, square base on which he is positioned interrupts his legs just below the knee. Thus he evokes ancient sculpture as it so often reaches us: fractured, incomplete, and part buried. Yet he retains the lower half of his head, facing sideways. Part of his helmet is discernible, as are a stylised lock of hair and the inscrutable line of his mouth. Carved stone sculpture of Memnon, naked, carved with the bottom half of the head, torso, and legs to the knees. Left arm absent from shoulder and right arm missing from just below the elbow. Legs on a plinth with MEMNON carved into it.
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