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Small double-handled drinking cup (Kantharos)

Small double-handled drinking cup (Kantharos)
© BA Antiquities Museum/Sh. Badran

Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0311

Inv.Inventory
 (Greco-Roman Museum) 25700

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Small double-handled drinking cup (Kantharos)

Category:
Containers and related objects, vessels, kantharoi
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period (332 BCE-395 CE)
Provenance:
Lower Egypt, Alexandria, El-Hadara (Hadra Necropolis)
Material(s):
Man made material, pottery (terracotta)
Height:
6.2 cm
Hall:
Extension, showcase 33



The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.

References
  • Achille Adriani, Annuaire du Musée gréco-romain, 1935-1939 (Alexandria: Imprimerie de la société de publications égyptiennes, 1940): 79-80, fig. 38.
  • Mona Serry, ed., Bibliotheca Alexandrina: Antiquities Museum, introduction by Ismail Serageldin (Alexandria: Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Antiquities Museum, 2015): 110-111, 320.
     
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