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Body Sherd With Painted Decoration

Body Sherd With Painted Decoration

Mycenaean

Bicrome on cream slip. Thick horizontal band of red paint (fragment of another above), with dark-brown and washy-brown concentric curved lines below, which probably formed a spiral. Dark-brown paint goes atop red. Closed shape. Pink fabric, handmade. Paint flaking and encrusted.

Terracotta

Minoan period, Late

Fragments