Object photograph·fol. 39r

Pottery jugs, juglets and bowls on shelves

Small pale pottery vessels arranged on three dark shelves, with a small head on a block at lower right — Photograph: Lawrence-Cesnola album, 1881. Wellcome Collection, London, fol. 39r. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Description

Small pale vessels are arranged on three dark shelves against a dark background. The top shelf holds about a dozen vessels with narrow necks and rounded bodies, the middle shelf a similar group, and the bottom row includes a small head set on a rectangular block. Some vessels have handles, ribbed bodies or cracked rims.

English

Pottery jugs, juglets and bowls on shelves: one of the sixty photographs of finds from Alexander Palma di Cesnola's excavations of 1876–1879 mounted in the album, on fol. 39r.