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Alabastron
Unknown"1450-1200 BC" - ""
Museum of Cycladic Art
Athens, Greece
Alabastron with a flat base, compressed hemispherical body and three handles on the shoulder. The vessel copies a well-known type of Mycenaean pottery. Imported Mycenaean vases appeared in Cyprus at the end of the 15th c. BC. During the 14th and 13th c. BC imports from the Aegean incresed considerably but Mycenaean pottery was now made in local Cypriot workshops, too.
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- Title: Alabastron
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator Gender: None
- Date Created: "1450-1200 BC" - ""
- Read more: <a href="http://www.cycladic.gr/frontoffice/portal.asp?cpage=resource&cresrc=200&cnode=67&clang=1">Read more</a>
- Provenance: Limassol district, Cyprus
- Physical Dimensions: w124 x h85 mm
- Period: Late Bronze Age
- Culture: Cypriot
- Type: alabastron
- Rights: N.P. Goulandris Foundation - Museum of Cycladic Art, Th.N. Zintilis Collection, no. 134, http://www.cycladic.gr/frontoffice/portal.asp?cpage=NODE&cnode=25&clang=1
- External Link: Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
- Medium: calcite
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