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LOT 0300
Bronze Age Hallstatt Ware Vessel
12TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
7 1/2 in. (746 grams, 19 cm wide including handle).
Squat in profile with low neck and broad mouth, rounded rim, strap handle; carinated shoulder with vertical fluting tapering to a narrow base; rim chipped, hole to lower body; with old handwritten paper label 'Trouvé à Lizzano près carente'; handwritten accession no. 242'; paper ticket with 'Bronzezeitlches [...]gefäss gefunden 1938 in Oderland bei glagan / schon mehr übergang zur Eisenzeit'.
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Dr Siegfried Zimmer, Germany, found in Glogau, near Haynau, Silesia.
Private collection, acquired by M. A. in 2004.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
See Rosiak, A., Józefowska, A., Sekulska-Nalewajko, J. et al., Funerary vs. domestic vessels from the Hallstatt period. A study on ceramic vases from the Milejowice settlement and the Domasław cemetery, in Sci Rep 14, (2024); Nebelsick, L. D., Die Kalenderberggruppe der Hallstattzeit am Nordostalpenrand in Hallstattkultur im Osten Österreichs, (eds. Nebelsick, L. D., Eibner, A., Lauermann, E., Neugebauer, J.-W.), 1997.
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