Jar

Bridge-spouted jug with carinated profile at the shoulder, vertical rim, pronounced base, and one vertical handle. Fine, reddish yellow (7.5 YR 7-8/6) clay, covered with red (2.5 YR 5/6) to black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Dark handle. Added white: traces. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. Marked "647" and "under Plateia" on bottom. The shape is descended from MMI versions like Sakellarakis and Sakellarakis 1972: pl. 2, no. 2 (Archanes). Compare Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 6, no. 17, from Gournia, House Ek. Compare also vol. I, no. 251 (Vasilike); Effenterre and Effenterre et al. 1963: 108 and pl. 44, no. HM 7878 (Mallia); 1969: pl. 48 (Mallia); Poursat 1966: 540, fig. 39, nos. 1-2 (Mallia); for this shape in bronze see Marinatos 1929: 370, fig. 5, no. 2.