Stirrup Jar
MS4141
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4141 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IIIA:2 | Late Minoan IIIB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Stirrup jar with ring base. Fine, pink (5 YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in red (10 YR 5/8) to darker paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Band on rim, inside and out; vertical chevrons and lines bounded by concentric arcs on upper shoulder; frieze of quirks bounded by lines on shoulder; bands on lower body and bottom of base. Restored from fragments; several sherds missing, including top of false neck. Comments: LM IIIA:2-IIIB, probably LM IIIA: 2. For the shape compare Popham 1964: pl. 5e-f (Knossos). Generally similar in decoration is Melas 1985: no. 995 (Karpathos). |
| Height | 16.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 7.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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