Jug
MS4600J
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4600J |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan IIA | Middle Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Jug with one handle and trefoil mouth. Fine, light gray (2.5 Y 7/2) clay, with traces of black paint. Decoration in (added white?) not identifiable. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing; surface eroded. Comments: MM IIA-III. Related to Walberg 1983: Shape 130, a common type. Compare (among others) The Cretan Collection Vol. I., no. 131 (Sphoungaras); Demargne 1945: pls. 3-4 and 29, no. 8682 (Mallia). |
| Height | 8 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 6.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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