The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Vase fragment

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Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

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Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Vase fragment

Period:: Late Minoan I
Date:: ca. 1600–1450 B.C.
Culture:: Minoan
Medium:: Terracotta
Classification:: Vases
Credit Line:: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907
Accession Number:: 07.232.88c

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