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Bottle or Alabastron

Bottle or Alabastron

Alabastron · 2nd millennium BCE
Orange clay with faded black decoration. Flat bottom - body tapers slightly upward to a narrow neck and flared lip. Two pinched handles with string holes on shoulder. Most of lip is chipped off. Decoration is two courses of alternating cross hatch areas and blank areas, all bounded by horizontal stripes.
Shape
Alabastron
Period
Bronze Age, Late
Date
2nd millennium BCE
Culture
Mycenaean
Dimensions
H: 12.00 cm W: 5.00 cm
Findspot
Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Cyprus
Museum
Harvard Art Museums
Accession Number
1966.128
Image Source
harvard
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