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MS4793.5

From: Greece | Crete | Vrokastro

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4793.5
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Theran
Provenience Greece | Crete | Vrokastro
Period Late Geometric Period
Date Made 720-690
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Wall fragment of large krater. Interior glazed fully. Exterior, on a white ground, the following decoration, top to bottom: 4 broad bands of glaze; parts of 2 running spirals. Clay reddish at edges on break but core is gray. Glaze grey-brown, fugitive in places on exterior. Identification by Nicolas Coldstream on visit 8Apr82.

Length 8 cm
Thickness 1.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); E. H. Hall, 1912

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