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Drinking cup
Early Aegean, Minoan
Bronze Age, Late Minoan IA Period
about 1700–1610 B.C.
Findspot: Greece, Crete, Mochlos
Medium/Technique
Ceramic
Dimensions
Diameter x width: 7.1 x 12.5 cm (2 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. T. James Bowlker
Accession Number09.559
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 046.
DescriptionCup. Thin clay. Decoration in brown on buff ground, large spirals and horizontal bands. Broken and restored. Some parts missing.
ProvenanceAccording to Fairbanks, Catalogue: from Mochlos, Crete; Sent by the Candia Museum in recognition of a gift from Mrs. T. James Bowlker for the excavations by Richard B. Seager; gift of Mrs. T. James Bowlker to MFA, December 29, 1909