Goblet with Octopus Decoration (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

13th century BC
Mycenaean
Ceramics
Containers-Vessels
terracotta
Overall (at handles): 6 1/2 × 8 3/8 in. (16.51 × 21.27 cm)
60.26
The Mycenaeans, like the Minoans, painted a wide range of sea creatures on their pottery, especially octopuses. Over time Mycenaean artists produced ever simpler and more abstract depictions of octopuses.
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund
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