Jug

MS4659

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

View All (2) Object Images

Object Number MS4659
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Locus O38
Period Late Minoan IB
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Jug with small raised spout; ridge at juncture of neck and upper shoulder. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 8/4) clay, with decoration in red to black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Bands on the rim, neck and body; dot band on neck; running spirals on upper shoulder. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. Surface eroded. A common type. For parallels see Silverman 1978 a: 99.

Height 29 cm
Outside Diameter 7.1 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.