Cooking Jar
MS4118
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4118 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan IA | Late Minoan IB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Vessel with convex profile and open mouth with one open spout; two horizontal handles; three legs with thick oval sections. Medium to coarse textured, reddish yellow (7.5 YR 7/6) clay, covered with red (2.5 YR 5/6) to dark red (2.5 YR 3/6) slip. Undecorated. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. This type of vessel, the Type B cooking pot, is a standard Minoan cooking vessel in MM and LM I. For discussion see Betancourt 1980: 3-5, and fig. IB. |
| Height | 22.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 17 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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