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Body Sherd Of Straight-sided Alabastron wwith Painted Decoration.
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Body sherd of straight-sided alabastron. Red-orange paint on orange slip. 3 concentric arcs and thick band towards neck; these bands would have formed a stemmed-spiral motif. Buff-fired pale orange. Very weathered, paint cracked, flaking, encrusted. Interior orange slip. Probably LH IIIA1.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Transferred from the Department of the Classics Harvard University Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection. From the site of Mycenae in the Argolid.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection
Title: Body Sherd Of Straight-sided Alabastron wwith Painted Decoration.
Description:
Body sherd of straight-sided alabastron.
Red-orange paint on orange slip.
3 concentric arcs and thick band towards neck; these bands would have formed a stemmed-spiral motif.
Buff-fired pale orange.
Very weathered, paint cracked, flaking, encrusted.
Interior orange slip.
Probably LH IIIA1.
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