Amphora
Jug
MS4637B
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4637B |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
Period | Late Minoan IIIB |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Amphora with round mouth and slightly everted rim and two flattened handles. Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with a gray core and a pale surface, with decoration in brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Bands on rim, base of neck, upper shoulder, and body; frieze of quirks on upper shoulder; lines around handles and neck; lines on handles; thin bands on body, between thicker bands. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing, including lower part of vessel. The shape and general format for the decoration are taken from stirrup jars, with a line around the handles and neck and thin bands on the body. For the motif see Furumark 1941: Motif 48, no. 5. |
Height | 14 cm |
Outside Diameter | 5.1 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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