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Drinking cup

Early Aegean, Minoan
Bronze Age, Late Minoan IA Period
about 1700–1610 B.C.
Findspot: Greece, Crete, Mochlos

Medium/Technique Ceramic
Dimensions Diameter x width: 7.1 x 12.5 cm (2 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. T. James Bowlker
Accession Number09.559
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 046.
DescriptionCup. Thin clay. Decoration in brown on buff ground, large spirals and horizontal bands. Broken and restored. Some parts missing.
ProvenanceAccording to Fairbanks, Catalogue: from Mochlos, Crete; Sent by the Candia Museum in recognition of a gift from Mrs. T. James Bowlker for the excavations by Richard B. Seager; gift of Mrs. T. James Bowlker to MFA, December 29, 1909