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Accession_Number 2006.12.49
Shape Dish
Shape_description
Material Terracotta
Fabric
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 2.5YR 5/4
Decoration Likely originally black all over, now with areas of brown discolouration
Inscriptions
Condition Fragment; worn decoration
Technique/Style Geometric
Provenance Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia, Sparta, Greece
Period Geometric
Date 8 c.
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

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Oblique view of a fragment, showing the black areas.

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Oblique view of a fragment, showing the black areas.

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Oblique view of a fragment, showing the black areas.
Comparanda Fig 31 (i) in R. M. Dawkins 1929 The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies; Supplementary Paper No. 5, DF261.S68D3 seems to show a similarly unusual shape
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Beazley_DB
Height
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims.
Location 7.1.4
Edited_by Nicola; Joana Varela; Jayne
Date_edited 13.7.2007; 19.04.2017; 12.10.21
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