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Beak-Spouted Jar with Dark-on-Light Painted Decoration

Beak-Spouted Jar with Dark-on-Light Painted Decoration

Minoan

Flat base. 3 bands of paint around throat and neck. Lip also painted. thick, quick brush work encricling where the round-handle joins body. Heavy burnishing marks evident. Paint is very faded, vessel cracked and restored.

Terracotta

Minoan period, Early Minoan III

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