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Inventory number

AP 2544

Category

Vessel

Period

Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean)

Date

1210-1170 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.37 m
Diameter: 0.048 m

Material

Clay

Location

First Floor Case 3, Νο 2

Description
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Cup mended of many fragments and restored. It was found in 1937-1938 during the excavation of the “Mycenaean Fountain” on the north slope of the Acropolis.

Its base is flat, the body deep with concave walls and the handle vertical. The pot surface is decorated with horizontal bands and irregular lines rendered in brown-black colour.

ASCSA Digital Collections - www.ascsa.net, αρ. κατ. AP 2544
Broneer, O., «Mycenean Fountain», Hesperia 8, 1939, σελ. 373-375, εικ. 55a
Mountjoy, P.A., Mycenean Athens, Jonsered, 1995, σελ. 44, εικ. 56.2