Vapheio-type one-handled cup with tortoise shell or ripple pattern

Details

• Title

  Vapheio-type one-handled cup with tortoise shell or ripple pattern

• Associated place

  Europe › Greece › Crete › Heraklion › Knossos (area of the 'cowboy fresco') (place of excavation)

• Date

  Late Minoan IA Period (c. 1700 - c. 1600 BC)

• Material and technique

  clay, pigment

• Object type

  container › vessel › cup

• Dimensions

  7.2 cm (height)
  9.2 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Arthur Evans, 1938.

• Museum location

  Ground floor | Gallery 20 | Aegean World

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1938.456

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