Jar

MS4663

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4663
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Locus G49
Period Late Minoan IB
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Side-spouted jar with hole-mouth and two horizontal handles on the shoulder. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7-8/4) clay. Wiped with water and burnished. Bands on rim and body; running spirals on upper shoulder. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. Surface eroded. A common type. For comparanda see Silverman 1978 a: 100 and The Cretan Collection, vol I. , no. 60.

Height 17.5 cm
Outside Diameter 17 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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