Jug

MS4261

From: Greece | Crete | Pseira

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4261
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Pseira
Period Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan IA
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Jug with coil (?) handle. Fabric: Fine, very pale brown (10YR 8/4) clay with decoration in reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) to black paint. Self-slipped. Decoration: Bands at rim (inside and out), base of neck, and bottom of body; three sets of triple plumes rising from band at bottom of body. Resting surface unpainted. Condition: Handle and fragment from spout missing. Surface erroded.

Height 19 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1908

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