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Stirrup jar
Early Aegean, Helladic
Bronze Age, Late Helladic III B 1 Period
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III
Accession Number1995.829
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionSpout to interior hollow. Dark-brown to black broad and narrow lines on buff clay. Stylized trees (or people) on shoulder and circles on the bottom. Prob. late palm trees (doum *illegible* palm?)
ProvenanceSaid to be from Boiotia, the Tanagra (Bratzi) necropolis, found in the early 1960s (?) and to have come from a Parke Bernet auction, Spring, 1970; by May 1970: Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection; May 12, 1970; loaned by Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III to MFA (103.1970); gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius C. Vermeule III to MFA, December 1995