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Piriform jar

Early Aegean, Helladic
Bronze Age, Late Helladic IIIA:2 Period
About 1430–1365 B.C.

Medium/Technique Ceramic
Dimensions Height: 14.3 cm (5 5/8 in.); diameter: 12.3 cm (4 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8041
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 077.
DescriptionThree handles; brown and red rings below, wavy lines above.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought from a Greek in Paris, who said that it was from Amorgos.); purchased for MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901