Inventory No. 59.

AN2008298

One 12-1/2"-Century Roman clay jug (8" tall) w/a carved handle. (The second one is missing) attached to the 3" slapping throat s to the fattest part of the shoulder (3" wide). It is 1 of 3-banded jugs in the collection --this one of 45. reddish clay of Roman Terra Sigillata ware, the other 2 of which hale. While damaged, this 10g reflects a Roman elegance, resting on a 1/4" flared base rim w/a non-seamless circular foot (1 5/8" in dia.). A gift to J. Crockett, D.F., Babney, Nulson, Nulson on May 5, 1973 from the grandfather of his embassy driver on Arabahor who had collected over the years. Born around 1940, while ploughing his farmland near the Colosseum of Jerusalem, the city of Tyrephos in Roman Syria, discovered Roman clay pipes.