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Grand Congloué shipwreck cargo amphoras (France) - Jacques Cousteau, Ferdinand Lallemand, ca. 1954

Object summary

Title
Grand Congloué shipwreck cargo amphoras (France) - Jacques Cousteau, Ferdinand Lallemand, ca. 1954
Object ID
HEE-SC-00031
Place made

United States

Maker
Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Object type
Color slide
Major collection
Technology
Photography
Named collection
Harold E. Edgerton Collection
On view
No
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Description

Jacques Cousteau standing by Ferdinand Lallemand holding an amphora, in a storage room containing two groups of amphoras from the Grand Congloué shipwreck site. Narrow amphoras are 1st century BCE types, and big-bellied amphoras are 2nd century BCE types. (CC)

Inscriptions

Type
pencil handwritten
Location
obverse top
Text
54
Type
black stamp
Location
obverse bottom
Text
14
Type
black stamp
Location
obverse bottom
Text
HAROLD EDGERTON M.I.T.

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