Stirrup Jar

MS3493

From: Greece | Amorgos

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS3493
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Mycenean
Provenience Greece | Amorgos
Period Mycenean
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Very small ring foot. Flattened spherical body. One handle and about half of the other missing. Put together from many fragments. Fine buff clay. Reddish brown glaze. Body decorated to shoulder with a series of groups of glaze bands. Each group consists of two broad bands, wheel painted, with a number of wheel painted glaze lines in between. One group around lower wall; another just below point of greatest circumference; a third around outer shoulder. Between the last and the base of the neck are glazed fan-shaped patterns set diagonally.

Height 31.24 cm
Outside Diameter 28.45 cm
Credit Line Purchased from George N. Olcott, 1904
Other Number 51 - Other Number

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