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Body Sherd Of Straight-sided Alabastron wwith Painted Decoration.

Body Sherd Of Straight-sided Alabastron wwith Painted Decoration.

Mycenaean

Body sherd of straight-sided alabastron. Red-orange paint on orange slip. 3 concentric arcs and thick band towards neck; these bands would have formed a stemmed-spiral motif. Buff-fired pale orange. Very weathered, paint cracked, flaking, encrusted. Interior orange slip. Probably LH IIIA1.

Terracotta

Helladic period, Late

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