1960.252.41: Body Sherd of Jug or Jar with Painted Decoration
Fragments
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.252.41
- Title
- Body Sherd of Jug or Jar with Painted Decoration
- Classification
- Fragments
- Work Type
- sherd
- Date
- 12th-11th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Thessaly
- Period
- Helladic period, Late Helladic IIIC
- Culture
- Mycenaean
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/291388
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- H. 2.5 W. 2.7 Th. 0.4
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
- 1960.252.41
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- From just bellow neck (collar) of jar. Streaky red-brown paint on white. A thick band (appears as two reddish-brown bands with lighter and thinner bands in between), with a spiral below. Buff fabric. Slight encrustation.
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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