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11.10.21 If the foot is restored correctly this is a variant of Ure's type K 2 (Ure 1927, 68), which is the most common Haemonian skyphos, as judged by the Agora material: cf. Agora 23, 60, esp. no. 1516, pl. 103 (with the same type of foot); ABV 565-71, 598-710 Slightly concave black rim; shallow bowl with flat underside; moulded ring foot, with concave inner surface.
2007.2.161 The shape suggests this is the neck of a vessel.
2019.5.1 This bronze sculpted head shows the mature Percy Ure, University College ReadingÂ’s first Professor of Classics (from 1911), as he appeared in the 1940s.
2022.7.8.a a column krater is a large, open-mouthed bowl used for mixing wine with water. There are only eleven fragments of this krater, three of them are from the base, the base is thick and wide, made with one big ring and two smaller rings, the body (even if absent) would have been with a round belly; two fragments are from the mouth of the krater, thick and wide rim with flat top
2022.7.8.b a column krater is a large, open-mouthed bowl used for mixing wine with water. There are only eleven fragments of this krater, three of them are from the base, the base is thick and wide, made with one big ring and two smaller rings, the body (even if absent) would have been with a round belly; two fragments are from the mouth of the krater, thick and wide rim with flat top
2022.7.8.c a column krater is a large, open-mouthed bowl used for mixing wine with water. There are only eleven fragments of this krater, three of them are from the base, the base is thick and wide, made with one big ring and two smaller rings, the body (even if absent) would have been with a round belly; two fragments are from the mouth of the krater, thick and wide rim with flat top
2022.7.8.d a column krater is a large, open-mouthed bowl used for mixing wine with water. There are only eleven fragments of this krater, three of them are from the base, the base is thick and wide, made with one big ring and two smaller rings, the body (even if absent) would have been with a round belly; two fragments are from the mouth of the krater, thick and wide rim with flat top
2022.7.8.e a column krater is a large, open-mouthed bowl used for mixing wine with water. There are only eleven fragments of this krater, three of them are from the base, the base is thick and wide, made with one big ring and two smaller rings, the body (even if absent) would have been with a round belly; two fragments are from the mouth of the krater, thick and wide rim with flat top
2022.7.8.f a column krater is a large, open-mouthed bowl used for mixing wine with water. There are only eleven fragments of this krater, three of them are from the base, the base is thick and wide, made with one big ring and two smaller rings, the body (even if absent) would have been with a round belly; two fragments are from the mouth of the krater, thick and wide rim with flat top
2022.7.8.g a column krater is a large, open-mouthed bowl used for mixing wine with water. There are only eleven fragments of this krater, three of them are from the base, the base is thick and wide, made with one big ring and two smaller rings, the body (even if absent) would have been with a round belly; two fragments are from the mouth of the krater, thick and wide rim with flat top
2022.7.8.h a column krater is a large, open-mouthed bowl used for mixing wine with water. There are only eleven fragments of this krater, three of them are from the base, the base is thick and wide, made with one big ring and two smaller rings, the body (even if absent) would have been with a round belly; two fragments are from the mouth of the krater, thick and wide rim with flat top
2022.7.8.i a column krater is a large, open-mouthed bowl used for mixing wine with water. There are only eleven fragments of this krater, three of them are from the base, the base is thick and wide, made with one big ring and two smaller rings, the body (even if absent) would have been with a round belly; two fragments are from the mouth of the krater, thick and wide rim with flat top
2022.7.8.l a column krater is a large, open-mouthed bowl used for mixing wine with water. There are only eleven fragments of this krater, three of them are from the base, the base is thick and wide, made with one big ring and two smaller rings, the body (even if absent) would have been with a round belly; two fragments are from the mouth of the krater, thick and wide rim with flat top
2022.7.8.m a column krater is a large, open-mouthed bowl used for mixing wine with water. There are only eleven fragments of this krater, three of them are from the base, the base is thick and wide, made with one big ring and two smaller rings, the body (even if absent) would have been with a round belly; two fragments are from the mouth of the krater, thick and wide rim with flat top
45.6.34 Bell-shaped mouth tapering to a short neck that broadens to an ovoid body. High swung strap handle joins from neck to shoulder. Conical foot. 'Pagenstecher lekythos' type. Cf. CVA Michigan 1, pl. 27.11 (smaller but similar shape and surface, said to have been found at Taranto) and Lentini inv. 61597: Lagona 1973, no. 85, pl. 11 (more slender). Both of these examples have smaller handles. For Sicilian vessels of this shape (decorated with bands or undecorated) see examples from Selinunte (Anne Kustermann Graf, Selinunte. Necropoli di Manicalunga. Le tombe della Contrada Gaggera [2002] 181 inv. nos. 113/0 952 and 953, pl. 57 [tomb 113]); Camarina (MonAnt 54 [1990] 25, pl. VIII [tomb 590.2]; 54, pl. XXVI [tomb 799.1-2]; and pl. LXXXIII [tombs 1222.5-6 and 1232.2, which are taken to be (imitative of) Corinthian lekythoi).
48.11.8 This shape was particularly popular at Agrigento, where many tombs contained one example (it is called 'brochetto attingitoio' or juglet for drawing liquids, comparable to the attic 'chous'): see especially Veder Greco, Contrada Mosè: 264 (tomb 3); Contrada Pezzino: 306 (tomb 582), 348 (tomb 238), 352 (tomb 779), 353 (tomb 1086), 354 (tombs 585 and 1147), and 355 (tomb 1225). Cf. also Lentini 61613/E (top half glossed) and 61569/B (smaller): Lagona 1973, 86-87 nos. 185 and 186, pl. 30.
49.8.1 Unusual form; neck and body are identical to a shape 8M oinochoe (mug) in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 22.632 (Padgett 1993, 211 no. 142, ill.), as if a fancier rim, handle, and lower part of the foot have been added to this piece.
50.10.1 Coldstream (79) classes this amphora as part of the 'plump and ungainly group' of LG IIb amphorae whose potters modelled amphora bodies after those of pitchers (see J.M. Cook, BSA 42, 151). Flaring mouth with rounded, thickened rim; two vertical strap thick handles extend from the top of the decorative zone on the neck down to the bottom of the decorative zone on the shoulder; rounded body tapers to a ring foot. Flat underside
50.4.23 Circular deep body with a small convex shoulder. Discus is concave with a small filing hole off centre and a small protruding nodule also off centre; this is probably the remains of a suspension lug. Long flat nozzle with a rounded tip and a large wick hole off centre at the end. Base is flat and demarcated with a line.
79.1.4 Small Circular body with a convex shoulder and a small flat discus with a large filling hole. Small lug on right hand side with dent in the top, this however does not reach through to the bottom. Flat long nozzle, slightly concave sides with a splayed tip and an oval wick hole. Small circular concave foot.
E.23.29 Fragment which takes the shape of cylinder that flares to a flat base with inscription. It is thought that objects like this were part of the facade of 18th Dynasty Theban tomb chapels. Inscriptions on objects of this type normally include the name and title of owner, although the hieroglyphs on this piece are confused.
E.23.38 Coffin lid ornament: backbone of Osiris. The object is a cross shape. The horizontal piece of the cross is a square with three horizontal lines carved across it. This is placed about nine-tenths of the way up the vertical piece. Just below the horizontal square are three finer carved lines.
E.62.47 This could be part of a pot as the top of the fragment appears to form a lip and the fragment ins curved.
E.65.6 Long, thin ornament from a coffin lid: the centre appears to have a kind of knot carved into it with three ridges on either side of this.
REDMG:1934.53.5 Belly-handled jar. High outturned rim narrowing to a short neck; ovoid body, in the centre of which are attached two vertical round handles, canted; flat base, slightly concave. Cf. larger examples of this shape are in Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum 918.3.77 (Hayes 1984, 47, no. B29, ill.) and Orvieto, Querce inv. 398 (Camporeale 1970, 126 no. 136, fig. 59, pl. 32b).
REDMG:1935.87.6 Rounded rim on tapered flange, below which the walls spread out to a thin element that would have supported the lid; just below this are attached two horizontal horseshoe-shaped strap handles, slightly canted upwards, to which spurs are attached on either side. The lower body is offset from the handle zone, rounded in the lower part where it sharply joins a moulded foot, with groove above a spreading upper part and a broader, rounded lower part, hollow on the interior, with a narrow resting surface, and a pointed, slightly offset underside.
REDMG:1951.132.1 Guttus type askos: swelling rounded body with bearing at the top a large relief medallion (frontal female mask with puffed cheeks and a lock of hair knotted over the forehead) offset and raised from the body; at a distance of ca. 0.5 cm are two incised lines beyond which the body is covered with fine vertical fluting down to its midpoint. A long diagonal spout with slightly concave sides rises obliquely from the shoulder below the medallion, and terminates in a three-stepped flanged mouth. A loop handle (semicircular in cross section) rises from the shoulder at a right angle to the spout. A tall thick foot, offset from the body, with a ridge at the halfway point broadens toward a ring base, slightly rounded on the exterior, with a concave underside offset from a concave element within the narrow resting surface. The foot is particularly tall, and is ridged in the middle: otherwise in shape this askos corresponds to Morel's type 8141h 1 (Morel 1981, pl. 209).
REDMG:1951.151.1 According to Trendall and Cambitoglou, RFVA 1.278.149, this is a special lekythos shape. Cup mouth, slightly flaring at the top, with a broad rim, convex on the upper surface; the mouth is offset from a short cylindrical neck that broadens toward the bulbous squat body; short ring base, rounded in profile, with narrow, flat resting surface and recessed underside; strap handle rises from the upper part of the shoulder, along the side of the neck and curves to rejoins at the lowest part of the shoulder.
REDMG:1953.25.4 Plain rim, below which are attached two horizontal round handles; curved sides, nearly vertical at the top and tapering more sharply towards the angled ring foot. Shape corresponds to Corinth black-glazed skyphoi, group iii, although the pattern on this skyphos is quite different.
REDMG:1953.25.40 Rounded rim on tapered flange, below which the walls spread out to a thin element that would have supported the lid; just below this are attached two horizontal horseshoe-shaped strap handles, slightly canted upwards. The body is rounded in the lower part and sharply joins a moulded foot, with an angled upper part and a broader, rounded lower part, hollow on the interior, with a narrow resting surface.
REDMG:1964.1619.1 Rough oval shape, straight sides, slightly upward sloping shoulder, raised rim that runs from the wick hole, around an almost circular discus area and then returns to the wick hole, this rim forms a slight rim for the wick hole too. In the centre of the discus area is small filing hole, the nozzle is deep and in the same form as the body with a large wick hole. Small circular ring base with slight depression. Lamp leans towards the left on the base.
REDMG:1964.1631 Very thin walls, with rounded rim, just below which are attached horizontal handles. Walls slightly concave, divided from a spreading, lipped torus ring foot, with a pointed resting surface, by a pair of grooves. This example corresponds to Ure's Class II.C skyphos, particularly (ii) which includes reddish-purple bands just below the level of the handles, perhaps a band at the bottom of the body where it joins the ring foot, and concentric purple bands on the underside (or plain black or reserved undersides). See Ure 1927, 24.
temp.2014.12.1 the shape is similar to an askos (a jar used to pour wine or olive oil but askoi generally have a pouring spout wider and parallel to the handle, and they are very often zoomorphic), this is a cruet for daily use. Rounded body jar with flat base, a pouring spout and a bigger filling aperture; a single handle from the middle of the neck to the upper part of the body.
temp.2022.7.3 the shape is similar to an askos (a jar used to pour wine or olive oil but askoi generally have a pouring spout wider and parallel to the handle, and they are very often zoomorphic), this is a cruet for daily use. Rounded body jar with flat base, rounded neck to insert the oil, a pouring spout in the upper body to pour the olive oil; solid handle from the middle of the neck to the upper part of the body.
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