Jar
MS4608
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4608 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Miniature alabastron with rounded body and no handles. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7-8/4) clay, with decoration in brown to black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Bands on rim and at base; foliate band on body. Comments: LM IB. Compare Coldstream and Huxley, eds. 1973: pl. 81, no. 27 (Kythera). For the shape compare Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 8, no. 38 (Gournia). |
| Height | 4.8 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 3.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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