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Body Sherd of Closed Storage Vessel by — VisualArtsDB

Body Sherd of Closed Storage Vessel

Body Sherd of Closed Storage Vessel

Medium: Wheel-made
Dimensions: H. 5.2 W. 7.9 Th. 0.9
Genre: Fragment
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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Mycenaean

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Red-brown paint on buff. Two thick, opposing curivilinear bands; probably part of spiralform motif. Coarse, brown-buff fabric with many inclusions. Paint cracking and chipped off.