Alabastron
MS4912
From: Greece | Crete | Mochlos
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4912 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Mochlos |
Period | Late Minoan I |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Baggy alabastron with three vertical coil handles. Band inside mouth. Outside of handles painted. Probably once had band at rim; friezes of paint flecks on neck and on body, with two bands between them and two bands below the lower frieze. Added white: paint flecks between bands on bands on upper shoulder; thin bands on band on lower body. Resting surface unpainted. Fine, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) clay with decoration in dusky red (10R 3/3) to reddish black (10R 2.5/1) paint and added white (poorly preserved) paint. Self-slipped. Restored from fragments. Mouth and some sherds missing. Surface eroded, especially added white. |
Height | 11.5 cm |
Outside Diameter | 8.8 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1908 |
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