Jar

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).