Amphora

Jug

MS4637B

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

View All (1) Object Images

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

Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.