Jug
MS4160A
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4160A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IIIA:2 | Late Minoan IIIB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Jug without spout; ridge at juncture between neck and shoulder. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay, covered with pink (7.5 YR 8/4) slip, with decoration in dark reddish brown (5 YR 3/2) to black paint. Burnished. Bands on neck; alternating rising and pendant concentric triangles on shoulder; bands on body and lower body. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. Commnents: LM IIIA: 2-IIIB. For the shape see Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 10, no. 37 (Gournia). |
| Height | 19 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 18.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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