- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1977.216.1789.4
- Title
- Body Sherd With Native Geometric Style Matt Painted Decoration
- Classification
- Fragments
- Work Type
- sherd
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Melos
- Period
- Cycladic period
- Culture
- Cycladic
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/327842
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Handmade
- Dimensions
- H. 5.2 W. 4.4 T. 0.8-0.5
- Provenance
- Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Loaned from George H. Browne, Esq. From the site Phylakopi on Melos.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Loan from George H. Browne
- Accession Year
- 1977
- Object Number
- 1977.216.1789.4
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Red-brown on brown buff. 6 thin, // diagonal lines forming a "V". Rotary, but not wheel-made (?). Closed shape. Incompletely fired. Native Geometric Style, Matt Painted Ware (MCyc. I-II)
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