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MS4165B

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4165B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Locus G11
Period Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan I
Date Made 2000-1800 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Side-spouted jug. Fine, gray clay, covered with black paint, burnished. Completely dark painted. Added white not preserved. Intact except for mouth and rim; surface very eroded. For the shape compare Hutchinson, Eccles, and Benton 1939-1940: pl. 14a, with LM I decoration (Palaikastro); Doumas 1976: fig. 27, left (Akrotiri).

Height 7.8 cm
Outside Diameter 7.3 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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