Jug
MS4653
From: Greece | Crete | Vasiliki
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4653 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Vasiliki |
| Period | Early Minoan IIB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Shape: Jug with high neck and spout, ring-base, and one soil handle (schnabelkanne or beak-spouted jug). Fabric: Fine, pink (5YR 7/4) clay with decoration in mottled reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) to black (5YR 2.5/1) paint. Decoration: Vasilike ware. Interior and underneath of base unpainted. Decoration applied in patterns, with four light areas, each containing several black dots. Condition: Restored from fragments. Spout missing. |
| Height | 23.8 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 17.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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