1966.128: Bottle or Alabastron
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1966.128
- Title
- Bottle or Alabastron
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 2nd millennium BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Cyprus
- Period
- Bronze Age, Late
- Culture
- Mycenaean
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/289944
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- 12 x 5 cm (4 3/4 x 1 15/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Stuart C. Welch
- Accession Year
- 1966
- Object Number
- 1966.128
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Orange clay with faded black decoration. Flat bottom - body tapers slightly upward to a narrow neck and flared lip. Two pinched handles with string holes on shoulder. Most of lip is chipped off. Decoration is two courses of alternating cross hatch areas and blank areas, all bounded by horizontal stripes.
Verification Level
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