The vessel is decorated with stylised argonauts or nautili (molluscs). This outstanding example of the mature phase of Mycenaean pottery presumably imitates a metal prototype.
Perhaps from Attica, Late Helladic IIIA1 Period (1400-1350 BCE). Made from clay. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Victoria).
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