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DÁGI, MARIANNA: 'Tinkers' and 'Patchers': Some Notes on the Ancient Repairs of Greek Vases

10. Mycenean fragment. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts 2. Mycenaean fragment (fig. 10) A.58. (9663) - deposit. Late Helladic IIIA2-IIIb (?).

67 H.: 4.2 cm; W.: 2.7 cm. Unpublished. Fragment of a vessel. Light red clay (Munsell 2.5YR 6/6) with red slip (2.5YR 4/8). Worn surface. An oval twin-sunk hole can be seen in the middle of the fragment. The fractures are even. The hole is 6x5 mm. *3. Bucchero kantharos (fig. 11) Inv. no. 50.911. Middle or second half of the 6

th century BC. From the collection of Vince Wartha. Bibi.: Szilágyi, J.Gy, CVA Hongrie 1, 31, pl. 5, no. 7. 11. Modern drill holes in the fractures of the handle of a bucchero kantharos. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts The upper part of one of the handles is missing. A circular blind hole can be seen on both fractures of the handle with remains of glue (fig. 11). There is no trace of repair on the exterior of the handle. The holes were drilled for the fixing of an earlier completion.

68 The holes are 6 and 7 mm in depth and 1.5 mm in diameter. 6/ See Furumark, A., The Mycenaean Pottery. Analysis and Classification, Stockholm 1941, 14. 68 The completion can still be seen on a photograph taken in 1952 (neg. no. A.192).