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Item one: old handwritten collection label on lower body.
5TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN ATTIC BLACK-GLAZED POTTERY LAMP
5TH CENTURY B.C.
The flat circular body with concave sides and central raised tube, a reserved band around the rim, short nozzle at one side, 4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) long; an Apulian Gnathia ware net lekythos, the body decorated with a lattice-work pattern in white, tongues around lower neck, with everted rim, late 4th/early 3rd Century B.C., 4 in. (10.1 cm.) high; a Corinthian miniature pottery skyphos, with brown bands and strokes, 575-550 B.C., 2½ in. (6.3 cm.) diam.; a Roman clear glass unguentarium, the spherical body with cylindrical neck and narrow everted rim, 1st-2nd Century A.D., 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) high; and a veined alabaster squat miniature jar, 1st millennium B.C., 1 in. (2.5 cm.) high (5)
5TH CENTURY B.C.
The flat circular body with concave sides and central raised tube, a reserved band around the rim, short nozzle at one side, 4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) long; an Apulian Gnathia ware net lekythos, the body decorated with a lattice-work pattern in white, tongues around lower neck, with everted rim, late 4th/early 3rd Century B.C., 4 in. (10.1 cm.) high; a Corinthian miniature pottery skyphos, with brown bands and strokes, 575-550 B.C., 2½ in. (6.3 cm.) diam.; a Roman clear glass unguentarium, the spherical body with cylindrical neck and narrow everted rim, 1st-2nd Century A.D., 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) high; and a veined alabaster squat miniature jar, 1st millennium B.C., 1 in. (2.5 cm.) high (5)
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