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Minoan terracotta larnax
- Material
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- Overall with lid 40 x 18 x 42 1/4 in. (101.6 x 45.7 x 107.3 cm); H. of body 30 1/2 in. (77.5 cm); H. of lid 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
- Date as given by the source
- mid-13th century BCE
- Record number
- 1996.521a, b
- Held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Object · mid-13th century BCE
Minoan terracotta larnax
A clay chest-shaped coffin with its lid, recorded as one object (1996.521a, b) and dated by the museum to the "mid-13th century BCE", Late Minoan IIIB. The record gives no findspot: "Minoan" and "Crete" come from the type and the catalogue, not from an excavation.
- Region
- The Aegean
- Material
- Terracotta
- Held by
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York