Tankard
31-12-5
From: Greece | Attica | Mt. Hymettos
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | 31-12-5 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Greek |
Provenience | Greece | Attica | Mt. Hymettos |
Period | Geometric Period |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Part of wall of lower part is eroded away. Upper part of "neck" entirely gone and much of its lower part and handle. Flat bottom. Body lenticular in profile. "Neck" nearly straight in profile. Underside unglazed. Only the lower part of the body is fully glazed. The neck is unglazed. On it are three zones of decoration. Above: a row of dots over 2 wheel-painted lines. Middle: running spiral above a second pair of wheel-painted lines. Below: running spiral over a single wheel-painted line. |
Height | 6.5 cm |
Outside Diameter | 7.3 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931 |
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