Alabastron
MS4285
Location: On Display in the Classical World Gallery
From: Greece | Crete | Pseira
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4285 |
| Current Location | Classical World Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Pseira |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Shape: Alabastron with three vertical coil handles. Fabric: Medium textured, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay with decoration in light red (2.5YR 6/6) to black paint added white (poorly preserved) paint, and added red (poorly preserved) paint. Self-slipped. Decoration: Interior of mouth painted. Undulating design on mouth and shoulder; three bands on lower body. Added white paint: rows of dots bounded by lines on highest band around body and around edge of undulating design; lines on two lower bands. Traces of added red paint between lowest bands. Resting surface unpainted. Condition: Restored from fragments. Some sherds missing. Surface eroded. |
| Height | 15 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 12.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1908 |
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