Antiquarium Arborense - Museo archeologico Giuseppe Pau Oristano

The Cominacini- Boy collection

The Cominacini-Boy collection was donated to the Antiquarium Arborense in 1994.

This collection includes 25 Phoenician, Punic and Roman pieces of pottery from the Phoenician, Punic and Roman necropolis of  S.Giovanni.

A mushroom-rim jug, two small jugs with bilobed rim, a cooking-pot, a troncoconic cup, two phialai mesomphalos and an ovoidal cinerary urn were found in a Phoenician tomb (second half of the 7th century BC).

A clay askòs worked on lathe was probably in the same burial: the cylindrical body in the shape of a horse, the legs are incomplete, the neck is lenghtened and the head shows two small ears, hollow eyes and a holed mouth to pour liquids. 
The rider's head- also worked on lathe- is open on the top to fill the flask, the upper limbs stretched on the horse's neck and the lower ones are turned backward holding the horse's rump.

A wine amphora (Dressel 1) from Campania (second half of the 2nd century BC), fine African tableware sigillata chiara A (2nd century AD), pieces of pottery and an oil lamp with rounded spout decorated with a lion (2nd century AD) are attributed to Roman tombs.