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Body Sherd of Closed Vesse with Painted Decoration. Imported Mycenaean.

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Body sherd of closed vessel, such as a piriform jar. Buff slip on grey fabric with 2 thick bands of orange-red paint, and part of a spiral intersecting the top band. The paint has faded, and is discolored to a grey-brown on the right portion of the sherd. Large chips and scratches. Voids, pits and a few large in fabric. Imported Mycenaean. LHIIA.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics Transferred from the Department of the Classics Harvard University. Loaned from George H. Browne Esq. From the site of Phylakopi on Melos. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University Loan from George H. Browne
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Title: Body Sherd of Closed Vesse with Painted Decoration. Imported Mycenaean.
Description:
Body sherd of closed vessel, such as a piriform jar.
Buff slip on grey fabric with 2 thick bands of orange-red paint, and part of a spiral intersecting the top band.
The paint has faded, and is discolored to a grey-brown on the right portion of the sherd.
Large chips and scratches.
Voids, pits and a few large in fabric.
Imported Mycenaean.
LHIIA.

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