1960.252.53: Body Sherd of Kamares Ware Jar
Fragments
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.252.53
- Title
- Body Sherd of Kamares Ware Jar
- Classification
- Fragments
- Work Type
- sherd
- Date
- 16th-15th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Greece
- Period
- Minoan period, Middle Minoan II
- Culture
- Minoan
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/291008
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Wheel-made
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Bequest of David M. Robinson.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.252.53
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- From an open jar. Kamares Ware painted decoration; a large, thick spiral in white paint atop a black slip. The interior has a thick, diagonal band of dark brown-red slip. Exterior paint is very faded, and the slip is exteremly chipped. Pinkish buff fabric. MM IIB
Publication History
- Fogg Art Museum, The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities, A Special Exhibition, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1961), p. 7, no. 2
Verification Level
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