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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.216.332.1
Title
Body Sherd Of Straight-sided Alabastron wwith Painted Decoration.
Classification
Fragments
Work Type
sherd
Places
Find Spot: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Mycenae (Argolis)
Period
Helladic period, Late
Culture
Mycenaean
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/287509

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta
Technique
Handmade
Dimensions
H. 2.5 W. 2.7 Th. 0.4-0.7

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Transferred from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection. From the site of Mycenae in the Argolid.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
Accession Year
1977
Object Number
1977.216.332.1
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Body sherd of straight-sided alabastron. Red-orange paint on orange slip. 3 concentric arcs and thick band towards neck; these bands would have formed a stemmed-spiral motif. Buff-fired pale orange. Very weathered, paint cracked, flaking, encrusted. Interior orange slip. Probably LH IIIA1.

Verification Level

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