Jug
MS4600H
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4600H |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Miniature jug with one vertical handle, trefoil mouth, and low maximum diameter. Medium textured, light reddish brown (5 YR 6/4) to black clay, varying greatly in color, with light and dark inclusions. Wiped with water. Swashes of dark paint. Intact. Comments: Probably LM I. See MS4600A. The low maximum diameter is not uncommon in eastern Crete in LM I. Compare (among others) Dawkins 1902-03: fig. 21, no. 11 (Palaikastro). |
| Height | 7.8 cm |
| Length | 6.56 cm |
| Width | 0.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 4.56 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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