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cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/L.2024.5.5
Accession_Number L.2024.5.5
Shape Cup
Shape_description modern tourist cup
Material terracotta
Fabric
Fabric_description
Munsell_color
Decoration three wavy snake like handles, 6 seahorses (3 pairs between handles) Greek letter. The base has makers marks including inscription 'Lesbos' 'Greece'
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Provenance
Period modern
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2025.97.0043.jpg		Oblique front view of a modern 'bucchero'-style cup, decorated with an alpha-theta-episolon inscription between relief seahorses.

2025.97.0044.jpg		Oblique front view of a modern 'bucchero'-style cup, decorated with an alpha-theta-episolon inscription between relief seahorses.

2025.97.0045.jpg		Oblique front view of a modern 'bucchero'-style cup, decorated in relief with seahorses.

2025.97.0046.jpg		Top view of a modern 'bucchero'-style cup, showing the rim.

2025.97.0047.jpg		Oblique bottom view of a modern 'bucchero'-style cup, showing the foot and maker's stamp.
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Beazley_DB
Height 6.4
Diameters
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Location 8.1
Edited_by Jayne
Date_edited 16.10.2025
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