vessel

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Object Type
Museum number: 1952,0504.1
Description: Pottery sherd; design black on red ground, with white accessories; lower part of Siren or bird to left, white crescent pattern on dark ground below.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 550BC-540BC (?)
Production place: Made in: Clazomenae (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Mytilene
Materials
Ware
Dimensions: Height: 4.20 centimetres (max); Width: 6.70 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: CVA British Museum 8 Similar to Pl. 594, 3 BMC B.99. BSA xlvii, 125-A.12.; BM Cat. Vases The style resembles that of some Daphnae and Naucratis fragments, cf. BM Vases B103, 11, and B121.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B99); CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB 590, 12)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: bird (?); siren (?)
Acquisition name
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1952,0504.1

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