Jug

MS4159

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4159
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I | Middle Minoan III
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Miniature jug with round mouth and one vertical handle; concentric string marks. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay. Wiped with water. Undecorated. Intact. Compare (among others) Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 2, no. 22, with a taller handle (Gournia); Dawkins 1903: 250, fig. 7 (Kato Zakros); Platon 1964: pl. 148B (Kato Zakros); Coldstream and Huxley et al. 1973: pl. 81, no. 25 (Kythera).

Height 8.3 cm
Outside Diameter 4.2 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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