ARCHELIUM
The collection275–220 BC

Timeless Knidian Heritage

Knidos, Caria, Terracotta

A wine jar from the shores of Caria. Knidian amphorae carried wine across the Hellenistic Mediterranean; the ones that survive are often crusted white from centuries on the seabed.

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Three Knidian amphorae on a museum shelf at Bodrum Castle, encrusted from the sea
The museum photograph it was modelled from
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