Jar
MS4611
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4611 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Cylindrical jar with tubular side-spout; two horizontal handles. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay. Wiped with water and burnished. Bands on rim and lower body; floral motifs (papyrus and other motifs) on body. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. A miniature version of a coommon shape. Compare (among others) Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 8, no. 22 (Gournia). |
| Height | 6.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 5.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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