Jug
MS4727
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4727 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IB | Late Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Jug with trefoil mouth and one vertical handle (oinochoe). Medium textured, reddish yellow (5 YR 6/6) clay with light and dark inclusions and many "lime pops." Covered with pink (7.5 YR 8/4) slip. Decoration preserved only as traces. Intact except for small repair at rim; surface eroded. A common shape at Gournia and elsewhere in Crete. The "Gournia Findbook" refers to many examples. Decoration, when it occurs, is simple. Compare (among others) Sackett and Popham 1970: fig. 14, no. NP 62 (Palaikastro); Dawkins 1902-03: fig. 21, no. 4 (Palaikastro). |
| Height | 15.7 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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