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Fragment of jar
Early Aegean, Minoan
Bronze Age, Middle Minoan Period
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
6.1 x 4.2 cm (2 3/8 x 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Suzanne R. Dworsky
Accession Number59.1124
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionVase fragment. Gray-buff clay with buff slip. Brownish red paint outside. Thick horizontal bands on either side of elongated "S" patterns. Red painted "P" [Phaistos?]
ProvenancePerhaps from Phaistos (red painted "P" on the sherd); by date unknown: Alice Walton Collection; by mid 1950s: Mrs. H. Stuart Hughes Collection (purchased from Louis Joseph); gift to MFA from Mrs. H. Stuart Hughes, May 14, 1959 (accepted as Apparatus); accessioned by MFA as gift of Mrs. Suzanne R. Dworsky, March 25, 1992