History of ancient pottery, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1873)
Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London, J. Murray · leaf 54
e shape of an egg, or else of a compressed globe, while the mouth is in general wide, but occasionally narrow. Some variety is observable in the position of the handle, which either touclies the lip and shoulder, or is placed under the lip, or entirely on the shoulder. It is generally placed in a… … No. 12.— Groixp of Vases of unglazed terra-cotta. Egyptian Room. Nos. 5C71, 5023, 5067, 5:73. Next to the vases with several handles, may be classed those with one. These are undoubtedly jugs, and their shape, although by no means so elegant as the Greek, marks them as the un- equivocal prototypes…
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