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LOT 0092
Phoenician Shipwreck Pottery Amphora
IRON AGE, 1050-850 B.C.
24 in. (7.35 kg total, 61 cm high including stand).
With small looped side handles, short sloping shoulder and ring neck, slender body tapering to a pointed base.
ProvenanceEx old Lebanese collection imported into Germany in the middle of the 1970s.
Acquired Bonhams, London, 20 October 2005, no.413 (part).
Property of a North London collector, acquired from a Cambridgeshire gentleman in 2007.
Accompanied by a copy of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages.
Accompanied by a previous owner's certificate of authenticity.
Cf. Markoe, G. E., Peoples of the Past: Phoenicians, Berkeley, 2000, fig.65a, p.162.
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