Jug

MS4223

From: Greece | Crete | Vasiliki

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4223
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Vasiliki
Period Middle Minoan IA
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Shape: wide-mouthed jug with small open spout, slightly flaring lip, and one vertical coil handle. Fabric: Coarse, red (2.5YR 5/6) clay with minute traces of lighter slip (or patina ?), tempered with angular sand and shell. Decoration: none visible. Condition: Restored from fragments. Surface very erroded.

Height 9.2 cm
Outside Diameter 11.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1907

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