Stone and faience vases. Chamber tombs at Mycenae. 15th - 14th cent. centuries B.C.
<p>Most of the stone vases were imported from Minoan Crete, a region with a long tradition in stone vase manufacture, or from Egypt and the Near East. Those in faience, an artificial material made of ground quartz bound with lime and alkali, came from Egypt and the Near East.
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4. Fragment of an alabaster basin decorated with petals on the body. Tomb 88. Inv. no. 3162. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Text: museum label.
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