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Accession_Number 2008.7.45
Shape Fragment
Shape_description Rectangular rim fragment
Material Terracotta
Fabric
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 5YR 7/6
Decoration Exterior: three parallel black horizontal lines on the bottom of the fragment, a squiggly irregular black lines on the side of the rim, and a black line following the exterior edge of the rim; rim: seven parallel short brown lines, all perpendicular to the rim; interior: reddish-brown glaze, darker near the rim and fading slightly down the fragment.
Inscriptions
Condition Fragment; fading of decoration throughout, worse on the interior, some other slight chipping; "Aphrodite Aegina" handwritten in pencil on the broken edges of the fragment.
Technique/Style
Provenance Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Aegina; picked up by P.N. Ure between 1907 and 1914.
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Date
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image
Comparanda
Bibliography
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims. Length 3.2 Width 2.3
Location 8.2.1
Edited_by Alex V
Date_edited 12.8.2008
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