Jar
MS4730
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4730 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Cylindrical pyxis; constricted neck to accomodate a lid; two lug handles. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay, wiht decoration in red (2.5 YR 5/8) paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Band on neck; six bands of paint flecks on body. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. For the shape see Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 7, no. 13 (Gournia). |
| Height | 11 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 11.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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