Stirrup Jar
MS4494
From: Greece | Crete | Tourloti
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4494 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Tourloti |
| Period | Late Minoan IIIC |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Iconography | Octopus |
| Description | Marine Style. Shape: Small globular stirrup-jar. Fabric: Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4 to 5YR 7/4) clay with decoration in reddish brown (5YR 5/3) to dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) paint. Decoration: Stylized octopus in the "fringe style"; two groups of three horizontal bands at lower part of body. Horizontal lines on outside of handle and on neck of spout. Three concentric circles on top of false neck. Condition: One handle and mouth of spout missing, otherwise intact. Surface very eroded. |
| Height | 11.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 10.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1906 |
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