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Pillar of the Community
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Great info. Thanks, Spyros - and welcome to CCF.
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UPS delivered a box of goodies today. These were recent auction wins, including a nice Marlik spearhead and a number of pottery pieces: several small Greek vessels, some interesting sherds, and one Amlash pot of the bird-beak variety I mentioned earlier in this thread. It'll be some time before I can get things documented for my Forum galleries. However, here's one little (less than 2" across) red-figure sherd, c. 5th century BC, that was easy to get a quick pic of. From a Connecticut private collection. I think it's interesting. The figure seems winged - maybe Nike? As a painter myself, it's nice to own an example - modest though it may be - of ancient figurative painting.  |
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Two more from among recent auction wins.  Olpe c. 4th century BC Magna Graecia 86.4 mm (w) x 81.3 mm (h) (3.4" x 3.2") Description: Blackware, some chips, repaired from sherds. Ex-Douglas Haner Collection, acquired in the 1960s. And my second "bird beak spout" vessel from ancient Iran. This one has some quirky "adorno" (relief decoration) below the handle:  Vessel/Pot Amlash (NW Iran) c. 1000 BC 18.4 cm (w) x 13.3 cm (h) (7 ¼" x 5 ¼") Description: Large, round body, "bird beak spout" with open channel projecting from one side of rim, small loop handle, adorno below handle (Bull or ram's head? Bird in flight?). |
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Very cool pieces Bob, I like the black glaze on the small pot. They really knew what they were doing back than.
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Pillar of the Community
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 with the above. Thanks for sharing your latest acquisitions, Bob. You are building a very impressive collection.
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Thanks, fellows. Appreciate the comments.
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Very nice looking examples Bob!...
I notice this second bird beak spout type is a great deal smaller than your first purchase, amazing detail for such a small piece and must say I find the pouring system/design quite simplistic but beautiful!!....
Bob on page 3 of this thread you've posted some photos of museum examples and there seems to be 2 distinct types? Both your specimens show the open channel connected back to the top rim and there are photos of another type where the spout is floating and looks much more fragile..... I suppose this connection of the open channel back to the main body gives a great deal more strength to the bird beak spout, just wondering if these design differences are from a different time period or culture?
ps...Looking forward to seeing some of those beautifully painted shards.
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Thanks, Paul.
I am not sure if the two general varieties of bird-beak spout pots that you describe were contemporaneous, or whether the ones sporting more literal avian features were perhaps earlier. Both types are often dated quite roughly to spans within the late Bronze Age through Iron Age II in Iran - meaning mid-2nd millennium BC through about 800 BC. Perhaps there is a source for good info and more specific dating on these but, if so, I haven't seen it.
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An interesting pottery update. This one arrived yesterday. It's an Apulian blackware figural handle from a large jug, with a head (of Zeus?) at its base. C. 4th century BC; 13.4 cm tall (5.3").  |
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Lovely detail on the portrait Bob!...And certainly does look like Zeus...
As that's just the handle I wonder what the decorative features would have looked like on the full Apulian jug?..
Really nice piece!
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Lovely detail on the portrait Bob!...And certainly does look like Zeus... Once again the craftsmanship is superb, and it's amazing that so much detail has been preserved over millennia.
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These are such amazing pieces of history! Thanks for sharing them with us.
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Here's an interesting update, IMO. The barnacles were thrown in for no extra charge.  c. 5th century BC 31.75 cm (w) x 20 cm (h) (12.5" x 7.87") Description: Upper portion of a large Greek amphora, recovered from the Black Sea, off the coast of the village of Koblevo (Kobleve) in southern Ukraine. This would have been off the coast of Olbia in ancient times |
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