Body Sherd

57-1-24

From: Greece | Attica | Brauron

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 57-1-24
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Greece | Attica | Brauron
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Coarse pottery resembling cooking fabric. Hard, reddish brown clay and brown surface. Presumably from closed vessel. On exterior is crudely incised, evidently after firing, part of an ovoid structure in outline (a tomb monument?) to which adhere above and at one side two and part of a third crosses, the arms at right angles to one another with a terminal bar at the end of each arm. Linear ornament inside the structure includes the date. 1936.

Height 8.4 cm
Width 6 cm
Thickness 0.6 cm
Outside Diameter 8.8 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. H. Lamar Crosby, 1957

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