Jar
MS4737
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4737 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
Locus | D23 |
Period | Late Minoan I |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Modified cylindrical jar wiht concave profile, with shape tapering slightly toward the upper part; small ledge shoulder; three small feet. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in dark reddish brown (5 YR 3/2) and added white (poorly preserved) paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Bands on shoulder and lower body; frieze of dots on upper body; linked running spirals with solid centers between bands on the body. Added white: thin bands on the dark bands on the upper body; perhaps other designs as well, no longer preserved. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. including rim. Surface eroded. The complete shape is not known because the upper part is not preserved. |
Height | 15.5 cm |
Outside Diameter | 14.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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