cup

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Object Type
Museum number: 1907,0119.581
Description: Pottery based sherd from straight-sided cup with bevelled base. Red/black slipped inside and out and painted with white curved lines on base. Base incised, probably wheel-marks.
Cultures/periods: Middle Minoan IIB; Middle Minoan IIIA
Production date: 1800BC-1650BC
Production place: Made in: Crete
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Psychro
Materials
Technique: painted; slipped
Dimensions: Diameter: 6.40 centimetres (base)
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (A614); Watrous 1996 / The Cave Sanctuary of Zeus at Psychro: A Study of Extra-Urban Sanctuaries in Minoan and Early Iron Age Greece (no. 11)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1907
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1907,0119.581

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