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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.216.2010
Title
Fragment of an Amphora with graffito inscription
Classification
Inscriptions
Work Type
inscription
Date
2nd century CE
Places
Find Spot: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Rome (Latium)
Period
Roman Imperial period, Middle
Culture
Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/287174

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Incised
Dimensions
12.9 x 8.7 x 0.7 cm (5 1/16 x 3 7/16 x 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • manufacturer's mark: incised graffito: PRIAMI CLARI
    (?)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acquired by A.S. Pease on Monte Testaccio, December 1905.
Gift to the Department of the Classics, 1906.
Transfer from Department of the Classics, 1977.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Dr. A. S. Pease
Accession Year
1977
Object Number
1977.216.2010
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Potsherd of red clay, incised before firing and later covered with a yellowish gray slip. The wheel-marks inside show that this is from the bottom of the amphora, and that the inscription was upside down. Names incised on vessels before firing are infrequent, and seem to usually identify the potter.

Publication History

  • Clifford Herschel Moore, Latin Inscriptions in the Harvard Collection of Classical Antiquities, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (1909), Vol. 20/pp. 1-14, cat. no. 36, p. 14

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/28/2023 - 05/07/2023

Verification Level

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