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Rim fragment

Early Aegean, Minoan
Bronze Age, Early Minoan III - Middle Minoan I
about 2300 B.C.
Findspot: Greece, Crete, Mochlos

Medium/Technique Buffware
Dimensions Height: 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. T. James Bowlker
Accession Number09.66
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 032.
DescriptionBuff ware with black slip, dark red and buff paint. Thick red band on interior below lip, extending over rim to exterior. Two buff horizontal bands frame triangular pattern with dots.
ProvenanceAccording to Fairbanks, Catalogue: from 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, January 14, 1909