Stirrup Jar
MS4126
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4126 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IIIA:2 | Late Minoan IIIB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Stirrup jar with piriform shape, with pronounced base. Fine pink (5 YR 8/4) clay, with decoration in red (2.5 YR 5/6) to slightly darker paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Bands around bases of spout and handles; bands over all of vessel. Spout chipped, otherwise intact; surface eroded, especially on upper part. Comments: LM IIIA: 2-IIIB. From B 16. Generally similar is Popham 1964: pl. 4d (Knossos). |
| Height | 19.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 16.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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