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Piriform (Pear-Shaped) Jar
c. 1400–1300 BC
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This shape was popular in its time as the amphora was several hundred years later, and probably served a similar function as a storage vessel. It was exported and imitated all over the Mediterranean world during the late Bronze Age.
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- Title: Piriform (Pear-Shaped) Jar
- Date Created: c. 1400–1300 BC
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.); Overall: 17.8 cm (7 in.); Diameter of base: 6.3 cm (2 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.60
- Medium: ceramic
- Department: Greek and Roman Art
- Culture: Greece, Mycenaea, late Helladic III A1-2b
- Credit Line: Gift of Leo Mildenberg
- Collection: GR - Greek
- Accession Number: 1978.60
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