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Accession_Number 14.9.33
Shape
Shape_description Fragment
Material Terracotta
Fabric Minoan
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 5YR 7/4
Decoration Fragment belonging to the rim of a vase made of fine fabric. Dull black paint inside and out. The exterior surface had white band around rim above spirals or tendrils with three horizontal bands below. The interior had a white band round rim. The material gets thinner at the rim.
Inscriptions
Condition The white areas are almost all gone leaving only a shadow of where they were on the black background. The black is wearing from the exterior surface. Some small deposits on the interior surface.
Technique/Style
Provenance Palaikastro, Crete
Period Middle Minoan III
Date 1700-1550
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

2007.03.1234.jpg
Front view of the esterior of a pot's fragment.

2007.03.1235.jpg
Front view of the interior of a pot's fragment.
Comparanda
Bibliography
Archive_Ref reference 1
reference 2
Beazley_DB
Height 6.9
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims. Length 3.4 Thickness 0.4
Location Timeline 1 top
Edited_by Denise; Kinsey
Date_edited 19 September 2002; 16.01.2006
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