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MS4793.16

From: Greece | Crete | Vrokastro

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4793.16
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cretan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Vrokastro
Period Late Geometric Period
Date Made 745-710
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Fragment of lip and upper wall of skyphos. Interior fully glazed. Exterior reserved, with decoration in dull black glaze. Very low lip, canted slightly outward in profile. Convex wall. A wheel glazed band on exterior of lip, another at top of wall. To left on wall: 2 vertical lines. Below, 3 horizontal lines. In panel thus formed are parts of 2 horizontal, narrow, rectilinear motifs, each formed by two bordering lines with vertical hatching between them. Light brown clay. Identification by Nicolas Coldstream on visit 8 Apr 82.

Height 4.5 cm
Length 5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); E. H. Hall, 1912

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