1960.252.12: Body Sherd of Pithos with Painted Decoration
Fragments
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.252.12
- Title
- Body Sherd of Pithos with Painted Decoration
- Classification
- Fragments
- Work Type
- sherd
- Date
- c. 2000 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Thessaly
- Period
- Helladic period, Middle Helladic I
- Culture
- Mycenaean
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/291513
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Handmade
- Dimensions
- H.10.1 x W.17 x Th.1.2 - 1.7 cm (4 x 6 11/16 x 1/2 in.)
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
- 1960.252.12
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Dark brown paint on white slip. Stippling in a lighter-brown paint. 4 opposing diagonal bands of thick paint. From the furthest right band are 5 diagonal // bands. Very chipped, weathered and faded. Coarse, porus red-grey fabric. Interior was slipped monochrome white.
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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