Jug

MS4474

From: Greece | Crete | Pseira

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4474
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Pseira
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Jug with high spout and one coil handle. Fabric: Fine, very pale brown (10YR 8/4) clay with decoration in reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) to dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2) paint and added white (poorly preserved) paint. Self-slipped. Decoration: Wide band inside mouth. Handle painted. Wide band on neck and spout; very schematized foliate band (FM 64) on shoulder; four bands on body. Added white paint: frieze of tiny dots bounded by thin bands on neck; band on foliate band. Resting surface unpainted. Condition: Restored from fragments. Some sherds missing.

Height 16.9 cm
Outside Diameter 13.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1908

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