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Slipped Body Sherd of Closed Vessel

Slipped Body Sherd of Closed Vessel

Slipped Body Sherd of Closed Vessel

Medium: Wheel-made
Dimensions: H. W. 3.3 Th. 0.4
Genre: Fragment
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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Mycenaean

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Slipped with brown-black, though nearly entirely worn off. Traces of paint near top of sherd; band around vessel and a diagonal line. Ridges from throwing prominent on interior. Reddish-buff fabric.