Alabastron
MS4478
From: Greece | Crete | Pseira
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4478 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Pseira |
| Period | Late Minoan IB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Marine Style. Shape: Squat alabastron with convex profile, three coil handles, low neck with slightly flaring rim, and low foot. Fabric: Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with decoration in reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) to black (5YR 2.5/1) paint. Self-slipped. Decoration: Dots on interior of rim. Lines on handle. Band on neck; octopi on shoulder zone, swiming to right; eight bands on lower part of body. Resting surface unpainted. Condition: Repair at mouth, otherwise intact. Surface very eroded. |
| Height | 9.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 12.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1908 |
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