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This unusual vase presents an ingenious solution to the problem of keeping a container and its cover together. Some scholars have suggested the model derives from basketry, but the complex composition more likely imitates metal prototypes. Lidded vessels rarely occur in the Mycenaean repertoire. Those with known findspots come primarily from mainland Greece and the island of Rhodes.
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Title: Terracotta "basket vase"
Period: Late Helladic IIIA
Date: ca. 1400–1300 BCE
Culture: Helladic, Mycenaean
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: total H. 10 5/8 in. (27 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906
Object Number: 06.1021.3a, b
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