Jar
MS4278
From: Greece | Crete | Pseira
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4278 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Pseira |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Shape: Conical jar with side spout and two horizontal coil handles. Fabric: Medium textured, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with decoration in red (2.5YR 5/6) to black paint and added white (poorly preserved) paint. Self-slipped. Decoration: Interior unpainted. Handles and spout painted. Bands on body, with foliate bands (FM 64) on handle-zone. Resting surface unpainted. Added white bands on dark bands on body, perhaps othe decorations as well. Condition: Restored from fragments. Some sherds missing. Surface eroded, especially the added white paint. |
| Height | 12.2 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 13.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1908 |
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