Tankard
31-12-3
From: Greece | Attica | Mt. Hymettos
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 31-12-3 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Greek |
| Provenience | Greece | Attica | Mt. Hymettos |
| Period | Geometric Period |
| Date Made | 799-700 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Part of bottom and of lower wall, all of handle except attachments missing. Flat bottom. Wall lenticular in profile. Neck taller than body, cuff shaped; no separate lip. Handle would have been vertical strap variety. Black glaze covers only lower half of body. On upper half of body are, above, a row of dots, and, on outer edge, 3 wheel-painted lines. On neck, 3 wheel painted glaze lines below and 3 above; between is a line of running spirals. Pinkish brown clay. |
| Height | 5.7 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931 |
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