Jug

MS4280

From: Greece | Crete | Pseira

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4280
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Pseira
Period Late Minoan IIIA | Late Minoan IIIB
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Shape: Basket-handled jug with high neck and side-spout. Fabric: Fine, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) clay with decoration in light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) to black paint. Self-slipped. Decoration: Interior unpainted. Spout painted. Bands on outside of rim and on neck; frieze of irregular vertical wavy lines and dots on shoulder zone; five bands on lower body. Resting surface unpainted. Condition: Restored from fragments. Some sherds missing.

Height 12.5 cm
Outside Diameter 13.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1908

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