High-beaked jar

Early Aegean, Minoan
Bronze Age, Early Minoan II Period

Catalogue Raisonné

Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 005.

Dimensions

17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.)

Accession Number

09.547

Medium or Technique

Ceramic; Vasiliki Ware

Not On View

Collections

The Ancient World

Classifications

Vessels

High-beaked jar. Beak broken off and attached. Cracked and a piece broken out of body. Red slip.

Provenance

According to Fairbanks, Catalogue: from Mochlos, Crete; Sent by the Candia Museum in recognition of a gift from Mrs. T. James Bowlker for the excavations by Richard B. Seager; gift of Mrs. T. James Bowlker to MFA, December 29, 1909

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. T. James Bowlker