Amphora

Jug

Amphora with round mouth and slightly everted rim and two flattened handles. Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with a gray core and a pale surface, with decoration in brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Bands on rim, base of neck, upper shoulder, and body; frieze of quirks on upper shoulder; lines around handles and neck; lines on handles; thin bands on body, between thicker bands. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing, including lower part of vessel. The shape and general format for the decoration are taken from stirrup jars, with a line around the handles and neck and thin bands on the body. For the motif see Furumark 1941: Motif 48, no. 5.