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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
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Descriptions

Description
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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