Body Sherd Of Straight-sided Alabastron wwith Painted Decoration.
Description
Body sherd of straight-sided alabastron. Red-orange paint on orange slip. 3 concentric arcs and thick band towards neck; these bands would have formed a stemmed-spiral motif. Buff-fired pale orange. Very weathered, paint cracked, flaking, encrusted. Interior orange slip. Probably LH IIIA1.
Dimensions
H. 2.5 W. 2.7 Th. 0.4-0.7
Provenance
Transferred from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, Gift of Pfeiffer-Hartwell Collection. From the site of Mycenae in the Argolid.
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