- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Small terracotta vase (a squat lekythos) with a flat base, oval body, long neck and a flared rim. [JP 9/7/2004 & ASh [OPS move] 27/04/2016]
- Long description
- Small terracotta vase (a squat lekythos) with a flat base, oval body, long neck and a flared rim. There is a brown glaze on the exterior, which is much worn away) The handle is missing from the side. [JP 9/7/2004 & ASh [OPS move] 27/04/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector John Wickham Flower
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: 400-301 BC Archaeological period: Ancient Greek Archaeological period: Iron Age
- Date collected
- By 1873
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1892, uncertain Found unentered: 2004
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 39 mm, Height: max 77 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2004.148.16
- Research and responses
Note that only a tiny fraction of JW Flower items are also marked as being related to the Pitt Rivers founding collection. Whilst it is possible that they did originally form part of the founding collection, were brought from London in 1884 and then placed with the geological (or other) collections at Oxford University Museum of Natural History before eventually being transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum it seems odd that they were not all recorded as being related to the founding collection. Most are attributed to being donated by Flowers to OUMNH and being transferred from there [AP 23/07/2009]
This object was examined by Dr Yannis Galanakis and Stella Skaltsa during the Fell funded project Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections. They described this vessel as a squat lekythos, a vessel related to the storage of oils or cosmetics. It dates to the fourth century BC. [AS 06/01/2011]
2004.148.16
Small terracotta vase (a squat lekythos) with a flat base, oval body, long neck and a flared rim. [JP 9/7/2004 & ASh [OPS move] 27/04/2016]
2004.148.16
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