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MS4710

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4710
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan IIIA:2 | Late Minoan IIIB
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from a stirrup jar, from the upper shoulder, with the stump of one handle and the spout. Medium coarse, reddish yellow (7.5 YR 7/6) clay with light and dark inclusions. Wiped with water and burnished. Lines around the handle and necks; octopus trail between spout and handle, on upper shoulder; bands on upper body. A commond type in Crete. Compare (among others) Kanta 1980: pls. 47, no. 1 (Chondros Viannou), 56, no. I (Kritsa), 57, nos. 1-3 (Episkopi), and 91, nos. 2-4 (Kumarospilio).

Height 9.4 cm
Length 11.8 cm
Thickness 0.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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