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Three joining fragments preserve part of base and wall. From a cup or small bowl with flat floor and convex wall on low ring foot.
Hard reddish clay, self surfacing.
Late Roman A. Cistern, container ... April-May 1937 |
About one-half preserved giving the full profile. White paint spirals on upper half of exterior.
Local clay, with black coating (partial).
Cf. P 16094. Cistern. Leica PD 2262-29b, DA 12205 ... 1962 |
Head with projecting ears and pierced eyes.
Dull purple red wash.
Perhaps from a plastic lamp. Cistern. Basket 4.
Late Roman fill. Leica, LXIX-23 ... 23 April 1937 |
Two joined and one non-joining fragment preserve the head, part of torso and tip of right wing.
Eros with wings curled up at top, long locks, eyes pierced, holding Pan's pipes in right hand.
White paint, ... April-May 1937 |
Single fragment from right side of face preserves cheek, part of right eye and some of hair at temple and over the ear. Eye was pierced.
Traces of white paint around eye.
Fine, hard, reddish clay.
Cf ... April-May 1937 |
| Report on sorting of pottery, August 1951, by H.S. Robinson [nb p. 3666].
Cistern discovered and dug to 1.60m., vi/10/36; dug to bottom iv/22/37-v/6/37. Diam. At mouth 0.26m.; neck begins to widen out ... 1st. c. B.C. to post-Herulian |
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