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MS5895

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5895
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Roman
Provenience Mediterranean
Period Roman Period
Date Made 1st century
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Comic Mask
Description

Intact. Bottom flat, the area outlined by two grooves forming a spade shaped outline. The discus has the form of a comic mask, the eyes and the mouth pierced. Two pierced handles and a lug on each side of the mask-discus is pierced, as if for suspension, also. Purplish-brown surface: glaze?

Height 6 cm
Length 11.7 cm

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