Jug

MS4175

From: Greece | Crete | Vasiliki

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4175
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Vasiliki
Period Early Minoan IIB
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Shape: Jug with high neck and spout, ring base, and one coil handle (Schnabelkanne or beak-spouted jug). Fabric: Fine, reddish yellow to pink (5YR 7/6 to 5YR 7/4) clay with decoration in mottled light red (2.5YR 6/6) to black paint. Decoration: Vasilike ware. Interior and underneath of base unpainted. Condition: Spout and neck repaired, otherwise intact.

Height 3350 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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