1960.255: Concical-piriform Three-Handled Jar
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.255
- Title
- Concical-piriform Three-Handled Jar
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 15th-14th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Salamis (Cyprus)
- Period
- Helladic period, Late Helladic IIIA
- Culture
- Mycenaean
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/291029
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- H. 16.3, D. 14
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Formerly in the collection of David Moore Robinson. Reportedly from Salamis, Cyprus.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.255
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Short neck with horizontal lip. Wide and narrow bands enciricling foot, neck, and above and below shoulder. Handles are painted solid. Foliate band(vericical // lines) around shoulder between handles. Brown paint on buff slip. Extremly weathered, faded, broken at rim and shoulder and mended. brittle. chipped concave foot.
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. 8, no. 8
Verification Level
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