Jar
MS4725.1
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4725.1 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
Period | Late Minoan IB |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Cylindrical bridge-spouted jar similar to MS4662 but with straighter profile and without small coils on either side of the spout. Fabric and surface similar to MS4662. Bands on rim, upper part of spout, and body. Zone of oblique dashes below rim, possibly continued on horizontal handles. Foliate band (FM 640 composed of isolated leaf pairs between two upper body bands. Bottom of base unpainted. Restored from fragments; many sherds missing, including vertical handle. For the shape compare Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 9, no. 17 (Gournia); vol.I, no. 59 (Pseira); Dawkins 1903: 250, fig. 12 (Zakros). For isolated leaf pairs see Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 8, no. 31 (Gournia). |
Height | 11.7 cm |
Outside Diameter | 14.4 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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