Body Sherd Of Cup Or Bowl With Painted Decoration
FragmentsMycenaean

Body Sherd Of Cup Or Bowl With Painted Decoration

Description

Body sherd of cup or bowl. Dark brown to brown paint on cream slip. Interior monochrome brown-black. Quickly painted vertical zigzag lines from a thicker band at the bottom, below which are thinner, orangey-brown lines. Glaze still lustrous though chipped and encrusted. LMIII

Classification
Fragments
Technique
Wheel-made
Medium
Terracotta
Culture
Mycenaean
Period
Minoan period, Late
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Department
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

H. 5.1 W. 1.5 Th. 0.4

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Loaned from George H. Browne, Esq. From the site Knossos, Crete.

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