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Body Sherd Of Jar With Imitation Mycenaean Painted Decoration
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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
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University. Loan 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
Title: Body Sherd Of Jar With Imitation Mycenaean Painted Decoration
Description:
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.
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