1960.252.21: Body Sherd of Open Vessel With Painted Decoration
Fragments
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.252.21
- Title
- Body Sherd of Open Vessel With Painted Decoration
- Classification
- Fragments
- Work Type
- sherd
- Date
- 16th-13th century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Thessaly
- Period
- Helladic period, Late
- Culture
- Mycenaean
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/291248
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- H. 4.8 W. 2.3 Th. 0.7
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Bequest of David M. Robinson.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.252.21
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- From a deep bowl or krater. A thick horizontal band of red-brown paint around the vessel on cream slip. Interior monochrome red-brown. Pinkish fabric. Red paint is cracking. Interior ridges left from throwing of vessel.
Publication History
- Fogg Art Museum, The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities, A Special Exhibition, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1961), p. 7, no. 2
Verification Level
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