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Concical-piriform Three-Handled Jar
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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.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Formerly in the collection of David Moore Robinson. Reportedly from Salamis Cyprus.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of David M. Robinson
Title: Concical-piriform Three-Handled Jar
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.
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