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$275.00 Original price was: $275.00.$225.00Current price is: $225.00.
H: 4.5” W: 3” D: 2.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S. !
Small wine jugs were made in the Roman North Africa territory called Africa Proconsulares and exported throughout the empire. Made and decorated with ribbing and a single handle on a potters wheel it was fired in a kiln. Simple and unadorned functional objects called coarse wears were made everyday use and to make offerings to deities using inexpensive long-lasting materials. Very good example of pouring vessels from ancient history throughout the Roman Empire.
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$775.00 Original price was: $775.00.$495.00Current price is: $495.00.
H: 4.5” W: 3” D: 2.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This Roman ceramic flagon is a uniquely shaped vessel used to store and pour potable liquids. A crème slip carinated jug with a high profile and a trefoil pouring spout, it has a strap handle attached from the carinated edge to just below the rim for easy handling. Roman coarse wars like this were use for liquids and to make offerings to household deities.
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$225.00 Original price was: $225.00.$184.00Current price is: $184.00.
Ht: 4.625″ Dia: 3.625” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Most small utilitarian pottery jars like this one made in Roman North Africa were either a perfume, oil, ointment or cosmetic jars. This wheel made vessel has grooved furrows etched on the surface while the object turned on the wheel. Made without frills for durability, the slip made it less porous.
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$525.00 Original price was: $525.00.$425.00Current price is: $425.00.
Ht: 7” W: 4.875″ D: 4″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This elegant terracotta piriform (pear shaped) flask contained healing salves, oils, ointments, and other precious items. The three applied raised designs are a lion symbolizes strength and power; palm leaves victory; and the rosette Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love, beauty, war and justice. The vessel was recovered in eight fairly large pieces, large areas were recovered intact and the fragments restored.
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$295.00
Ht: 6.25” W: 3.25” D: 2.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S. !
Made in Africa Proconsularis in Roman North Africa and shipped throughout the Roman Empire, this small pouring vessel was made of inexpensive and long-lasting materials and was called coarse wear for everyday use. This earthenware jug is elegant in its simplicity – tapered and undecorated except for horizontal ridges, curved single handle, simple rim at the mouth and crème clay slip. It was made using a potters wheel, seen by the circle marks on the bottom and the uniform ribbing. A fine small piece of history.
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$325.00 Original price was: $325.00.$235.00Current price is: $235.00.
H: 2.675” DIA: 3” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This simple ancient small earthenware bowl was made in Africa Proconsularis, the Roman North Africa pottery center and distributed throughout the Roman Empire. With no handle, this beaker is beautiful in its simplicity resting on a short foot, a body that curves up and rises to meet a neck and is topped with an everted rim to lessen spillage Made for daily use, this Roman coarse wear has a wide mouth for easy drinking and a rim with light terracotta red and its crème slip with an exquisite shape.
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$625.00 Original price was: $625.00.$495.00Current price is: $495.00.
H: 8.5” Dia: 9.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Made in the Roman North Africa, this ancient carinated ceramic flagon called coarse wear for daily use made of inexpensive durable clay was used to hydrate all kinds of people and on home altars for offerings to family deities. Carinated pottery, where the top and lower sections are angled in opposite directions forming a pointed edge, was common ancient pottery shape, this one with a handle.
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$465.00 Original price was: $465.00.$365.00Current price is: $365.00.
H: 1.625” Dia: 10.125” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
A fine ancient Roman platter produced for upper classes, this is refined and delicate and has stamped decorative images in complex circles. Although rough areas with small losses remain, it is an ancient piece otherwise in very good condition that, especially considering its age and use, remains a remarkable surviving piece of history.
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$110.00 Original price was: $110.00.$90.00Current price is: $90.00.
H: 2.75” W: 3.125” Thick: 0.375” Circum. 8.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This 19th century Fulani bracelet likely originated in Mali or Niger. As nomadic people, bracelets and anklets such as this were an ideal form of currency that was wearable, easily portable, and available for occasional major purchases. This circular thin C-shaped manilla has a rounded smooth surface inside and out. It is divided visually into six sections with incised crosshatch and linear designs. The copper-colored surface has a fine patina and it is in excellent condition with signs of use consistent with its age. It comes with a wood and metal stand.
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$165.00 Original price was: $165.00.$125.00Current price is: $125.00.
H: 2.875” W: 3” Thick: 0.625” Circum: 8.5” | FREE SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Each African group made its own manillas and were mostly horseshoe or C-shaped. Ranging from thin delicate shapes to heavy massive pieces, they were embellished with deeply carved designs, stamped or incised geometric forms and other motifs. This delicate Fulani bracelet has cut parallel ridges over most of its surface eliciting the effects of twisted metal pieces. The top is centered with a unique extended flat topped boss/knob.
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$185.00 Original price was: $185.00.$145.00Current price is: $145.00.
H: 2.75” W: 2.875” Thick: 0.5” Circum: 8.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This antique thick Fulani metal bracelet with flat ends has a smooth rounded outer surface with deeply etched and stamped traditional designs of triangles, horizontal bands, circles, facets and groves. This beautiful bracelet with a fine patina is in excellent condition and comes with a wood and metal stand.
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$195.00 Original price was: $195.00.$135.00Current price is: $135.00.
H: 2.625” W: 3” Thick: 0.25” Circum. 8.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Each African region fabricated its own variety of manillas that were typically horseshoe or C-shaped. This large beautiful antique manilla has a rounded smooth surface with fine etched linear design, circles, swirls, stipples, and V-shapes. In excellent condition with a fine aged patina it comes with a wood and metal stand.
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