
Late Bronze Age II
Small piriform jar
Wheel-thrown earthenware with sepia-black slip paint 11.6 x 10.2 cm
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- JarPiriform jar
- Decoration
- Painted
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyBronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
- Date
- 1350 - 1250 BC
- Place of production
- Aegean and GreeceMycenaean Greece
Collection
Provenance
- Argive (Mycenaean) Greece, found on Cyprus
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 920.39.5, Ontario Museum
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