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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.119
Title
One-Handled Redware Jug
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
2nd millennium BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Cyprus
Period
Bronze Age, Middle
Culture
Cypriot
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/290414

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta; reddish clay with red slip and white decoration in incisions
Dimensions
13 x 10.5 cm (5 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Stuart C. Welch
Accession Year
1966
Object Number
1966.119
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Redware. Incised white decoration: sets of concentric circles with radiating bands. Circles are linked around top 2/3 of vessel. Round bottom. Small handle from lip to body. Pinched protuberance of clay opposite the handle and below the lip. Globular body widens towards a rounded bottom.

Publication History

  • David Gordon Mitten and Amy Brauer, Dialogue with Antiquity, The Curatorial Achievement of George M. A. Hanfmann, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1982), p. 10, no. 1.

Exhibition History

  • Dialogue with Antiquity: The Curatorial Achievement of George M.A. Hanfmann, Fogg Art Museum, 05/07/1982 - 06/26/1982

Verification Level

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