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Cylindrical grip with polychrome decoration

    • Provenienza:
      Syracuse, Giardino Spagna, Cultrera excavations, 1937-1938
    • Data:
      First half of the 3rd century BC
    • Materiali:
      Clay
    • Dimensioni:
      height 11 cm, max. diameter 5.3 cm
    • Collocazione:
      Syracuse, Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi”
    • Inventario:
      inv. 51069
  • Cylindrical grip with polychrome decoration

This is likely the knob on a lid for a pyxis or lekane, with applied acanthus leaves in relief in a bright polychromy (red, bright pink, blue, yellow).