Jug

MS4262

From: Greece | Crete | Sphoungaras

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4262
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Sphoungaras
Period Middle Minoan IB | Middle Minoan III
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Shape: Miniature jug with trefoil mouth and one coil handle. Fabric: Medium textured, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay, with sandy, partly micaceous tempering, with decoration in pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) to dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) paint. Self-slipped. Decoration: Inside of mouth painted. Upper part of handle painted. Neck painted; large spot on lower part of body (both sides), continuing partly onto resting surface. Condition: Intact.

Height 7.7 cm
Outside Diameter 8.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1910

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