Jug

MS4632

From: Greece | Crete | Vasiliki

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4632
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Vasiliki
Period Late Minoan IA
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Shape: Jug with one coil (?) handle, with ring at juncture between neck and shoulder. Fabric: Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with decoration in dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) to black (5YR 2.5/1) paint and added white (poorly preserved) paint. Self-slipped. Decoration: Bands on neck and lower body. Added white paint: bands on dark bands on neck and shoulder; dots between bands on upper of two dark bands on lower body; band on lowest dark band. Condition: Restored from fragments. Many sherds missing.

Height 15.1 cm
Outside Diameter 13.1 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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