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LOT 0904

Romano-British Greyware Funerary Urn with Remains from Nene Valley

2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.

7 3/4 in. (945 grams, 19.5 cm).

Ovate in profile with disc foot, deep shoulder and flared rim to the mouth; containing fragments of ancient cremated bone; repaired and partly restored. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Nene Valley, Peterborough, UK.
From an old English collection.
Acquired from Helios Gallery in 2011.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Literature

Cf. similar in the British Museum under accession no.1993,0102.4.

CONDITION

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LOT 0904

Romano-British Greyware Funerary Urn with Remains from Nene Valley

Sold for (Inc. bp): £910

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