Alabastron
Archaeological museum of Chora
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Alabastron
15th century BCE
Archaeological museum of Chora
Routsi, Myrsinochori, tholos tomb 2, Messenia
Alabaster
TerracottaHeight: 6 cm
Three-handled squat alabastron. Pale yellow clay. Brown-coloured decoration with ivy leaves and rock pattern. Concentric circles on the base with a wavy line around them. From tholos tomb 2 at Routsi, Myrsinochori; the tomb has yielded numerous elaborate offerings of a variety of materials, attesting the presence and the outreach of the local mycenaean elite.