Bridge Spouted Jug

MS4259

From: Greece | Crete | Vasiliki

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4259
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Vasiliki
Period Middle Minoan IB
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Shape: Baggy, semiglobular jug with bridged spout and one coil handle. Fabric: Fine, red (2.5YR 5/6) clay with dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) to black paint and decoration in added white (poorly preserved) and added red (poorly preserved) paint. Decoraiton: Band inside rim. Exterior painted, including resting surface. Added red paint: two sets of two bands, one on neck and one on body. Added white paint: groups of four S's between red bands on neck and body; frieze of fish, swimming to right, on shoulder; bands on spout; lines on handle; thin bands below lowest red band and on outside of lip. Condition: Restored from fragments. Added paint poorly preserved.

Height 10.4 cm
Outside Diameter 17.1 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1906

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