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Stirrup jar
Early Aegean, Helladic
Bronze Age, Late Helladic III B Period
about 1350–1200 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 27 cm (10 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession Number64.979
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionReddish-brown on buff. Bands around body enclose row of lozenges. Concentric circles on slightly convex top of false neck, a band around base and rim of spout, free lozenges and concentric circles with dotted outer circle in the upper portion.
ProvenanceSaid to have been found near Tanagra in Boiotia; by 1963: with Theodoros Zoumboulakis in Athens; by 1964: with Byron Th. Zoumboulakis, 8 Place de la Taconnerie, Geneva, Switzerland; purchased by MFA from Byron Th. Zoumboulakis, June 8, 1964