Jar
| Object Number: | MS4662 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Minoan |
| Provenience: | Greece Crete Gournia |
| Locus: | W20 |
| Period: | Late Minoan IB |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Ceramic |
| Height: | 19.6 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 22.5 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
Description
Cylindrical bridge-spouted jar with one vertical handle and two horizontal side-handles. Small coils linking spout and body. Medium textured, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in red (2.5 YR 4/8) to black paint. Wiped with water, and burnished. Bands on the rim and lower body, with zone of solid semicircles (wave pattern) rising form band on shoulder. Spout and handles painted. Bottom of base unpainted. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. For generally similar jars with wave pattern and other motifs see Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 9, nos. 17-18 and 30 (Gournia).
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Collection] Silverman, Jean S., and Betancourt, Philip P. 1991. Pottery from Gournia:The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, The University of Pennsylvania.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 59, no. 606, pl. 18, fig. 22 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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