1892.67.934

Collection type

Object

Description

Large fragment of black ware kantharos (bowl) with only one handle preserved. [ASh [OPS move] 27/04/2016]

Long description

Large fragment of kantharos (bowl) with only one handle preserved. Base of the bowl is also fragmentary. Reduction fired. [ASh [OPS move] 27/04/2016]

Geographical reference

Italy

Europe > Southern Europe > Italy

Lazio Provincia di Roma near Rome

Person

Field collector John Wickham Flower

PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Iron Age Etruscan

Date collected

By 1873

Acquisition information

Transferred: 1886, uncertain Transferred: 1892, uncertain Found unentered: 1996

Materials and processes

Material Clay, Material Pottery, Process Thrown, Process Slipped

Dimensions

Width: max 205 mm, Height: max 92 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1892.67.934

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]

Search terms: Pottery, Religion, Death, Vessel, Sherd, Grave Good