Jar

MS4281

From: Greece | Crete | Pseira

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4281
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Pseira
Period Late Minoan IA
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Shape: Cylindrical bridge-spouted jar with two horizontal side-handles and one vertical handle, all coils. Fabric: Fine, pink (7.5YR 8/4) clay with decoration in dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) to black paint and added white paint. Self-slipped. Decoration: Band on inside of rim. Outside of handles painted Four bands on body, with freize of wavy lines between second and third band. Added white paint: thin bands on all four dark bands. Resting surface unpainted. Condition: Mended from two large fragments.

Height 10.3 cm
Outside Diameter 11.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1908

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