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Jar fragment

Early Aegean, Minoan
Bronze Age, Late Minoan I B Period
Late Minoan I B, about 1450 B.C.
Findspot: Greece, Crete, Mochlos

Medium/Technique Ceramic
Dimensions 10 x 11.5 cm (3 15/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. T. James Bowlker
Accession Number09.793
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

DescriptionJar fragment, from the upper body and lower neck of a big jug? Vertical neck, broadly sloping shoulder; ridge at junction. Red clay gray at core, buff slip, dark brown paint. Band at neck, from which loose linear foliate bands, below which a row of upright arrowheads; below, part of a horizontal lily blossom.
ProvenanceFrom Richard Seager's Excavation at Mochlos, Crete.