Jug
MS4600K
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4600K |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
Locus | Omega 11 |
Period | Late Minoan IB |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Jug with one handle; three horizontal grooves on neck; parallel string marks. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in reddish yellow to black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Mouth and neck painted. Foliate band without central stem on body. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing, including spout. The foliate band composed of two zones of crescents suggests LM IB. |
Height | 6.5 cm |
Outside Diameter | 9.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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