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Stirrup Jar  with Painted Decoration

Stirrup Jar with Painted Decoration

Mycenaean

Stirrup jar. Slightly convex top-disc painted with dot, disc is slightly broader than spout. Small hollowed ring base. Loop of paint connecting spout to false spout. Wide concentric band enclose smaller concentric bands around vessel atshoulder, below belly, and at base. Buff slip, brown-black paint. scratched, pitted, chipped. Cypro-Mycenaean. Late Cypriot II (c. 1400-1200)

Terracotta

Helladic period, Late

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