Amphora
MS6004
From: Greece | Crete | Vrokastro (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS6004 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cretan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Vrokastro (uncertain) |
| Period | Geometric Period |
| Date Made | 899-700 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Profile complete though restored from fragments and missing parts restored in plaster. Double handles in part preserved. Flat bottom. Ovoid body swelling upward. Cylindrical neck slightly concave in profile. Projecting rim. On one side a horizontal panel of decoration: above, running spiral; middle, alternate butterfly and hourglass; below, runing spiral. Hatched lines on handles. |
| Height | 6.9 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 3.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); E. H. Hall, 1912 |
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