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Accession_Number 50.12.1
Shape Krater
Shape_description Fragment of rim of krater with part of root of one handle.
Material Terracotta
Fabric Mycenaean
Fabric_description
Munsell_color 10YR 6/3
Decoration A thick clay fragment showing below the rim and in line with the area of the handle zone; a pattern of joined arc-shaped bands and immediatly before the handle a vertical line joining the horizontal lines that surround the arc motif. On top of rim there is a single narrower curved painted band.
Inscriptions
Condition The black paint has almost all faded too; completely in parts and in others the paint is denser.
Technique/Style
Provenance Picked up or purchased from children at Mycenae between 1907 and 1914.
Period
Date
Dating_details
Artist
Attribution
Image

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Top view of a Mycenaean krater fragment.

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Comparanda
Bibliography
Archive_Ref reference 1
Beazley_DB
Height 6.3
Diameters 3.8
Handle_height
Other_dims.
Location 2.2.1
Edited_by Karen
Date_edited 30.03.2004
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