Greek Cypriot Amphora Neck
Circa 400 B.C. A ceramic amphora neck of broadly cylindrical form with one everted and one rolled rim, integral conical knop to the lip and a shallower, oval knop to the opposite face. 595 grams, 13 cm wide (5 1/8 in.). From an old UK collection.From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016) part 2, keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent.Accompanied by an identification display card.Accompanied by a copy of his obituary published in Horizon, The Amarna Project and Amarna Trust newsletter, Issue 18, 2017, p.21, by Barry John Kemp, CBE, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and directing excavations at Amarna in Egypt. [No Reserve]