Pottery lekythos, Mycaenae, c.1250 BC

Pottery lekythos, Mycaenae, c.1250 BC
Period:
Dating:1300 BC–1200 BC
Origin:Greek World, Peloponnesus, Mycaenae
Material:Pottery (all types)
Physical:10.8cm. (4.2 in.) - 140 g. (4.9 oz.)
Catalog:POT.MM.00482

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Links to others of type Jug

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  Globular lekythos, with proto-geometric patterns. Peloponnese, Mycenae, 1300-1200 BC (about the time of the Trojan War).

Higgins (1979) documented very similar vases as: “Two Mycenaean vases in the British Museum. They too were probably found in the same tomb as the Treasure..... and made between 1300 and 1200 BC.”



Bibliography (for this item)

Higgins, Reynolds
1979 The Aegina Treasure: an Archaeological Mystery. British Museum Publications, London, United Kingdom.






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