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Accession_Number 14.9.31
Shape
Shape_description Fragment
Material Terracotta
Fabric Minoan
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 7.5YR 7/4
Decoration Fragment of rim of vase. Interior is reserved except for a black band around rim. The exterior is painted dark brown with four horizontal bands of red covered with white dots. There is a narrow band of orange just below rim. The walls thin at the rim.
Inscriptions
Condition The red and white colour from the exterior surface are badly faded to only traces remain. Dot of black paint on edge and also touching exposed clay at fracture - possibly modern.
Technique/Style
Provenance Palaikastro, Crete
Period Middle Minoan I
Date 2000-1800
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2007.03.1287.jpg
Top view of a Minoan fragment, showing the red horizontal bands and white dots on the painted dark brown exterior.

2007.03.1288.jpg
Top view of a Minoan fragment, showing the reserved interior.
Comparanda
Bibliography
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB
Height 3.6
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims. Length 3.8 Thickness 0.5
Location Timeline 1 top
Edited_by Denise; Kinsey
Date_edited 19 September 2002; 16.01.2006
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