Body sherd from large, closed vessel, probably a piriform jar. Streaky orange-red to brown paint cream slip. Two large, thinly-painted linked spirals, with another stem. The stem and thicker band linking the spirals has fine white paint atop the darker brown. Lustrous, though some chips and scratches. Fine, red-orange fabric with some inclusions, wheel-made. Imported Mycenaean. LHIIIA1 (c. 1400-1375 BCE). Joins with 1977.216.1792.5.
H. 3.4 W. 4.3 Th. 0.3
Transferred from the Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Loaned from George H. Browne, Esq. From the site of Phylakopi on Melos.
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