1977.216.1805.2: Body Sherd Of Jar With Imitation Mycenaean Painted Decoration
Fragments
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1977.216.1805.2
- Title
- Body Sherd Of Jar With Imitation Mycenaean Painted Decoration
- Classification
- Fragments
- Work Type
- sherd
- Places
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Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Phylakopi (Melos)
Find Spot: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Phylakopi (Melos) - Period
- Cycladic period, Late
- Culture
- Mycenaean
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/328228
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- H. 3.3 W. 5.4 Th. 0.2-0.4
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Transfer from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Loan from George H. Browne Esq.From the site of Phylakopi on Melos.
Acquisition and Rights
- 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
- 1977.216.1805.2
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Body sherd of jar. Dark brown to brown paint on yellow-buff. A dark brown band around vessel above is a dark-brown foliate band, with another lighter band of paint around the vessel. Below the shoulder there are 9 dark-brown leaves atop lighter-washy brown, which formed a large double-foliate motif. Grey-buff clay. Paint cracked, flaked off. LH I-IIA
Verification Level
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