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Early Aegean, Minoan
Bronze Age, Early Minoan III Period
about 2200–2000 B.C.

Medium/Technique Ceramic, White-on-dark ware
Dimensions Height: 19.9 cm (7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. T. James Bowlker
Accession Number09.552
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsVessels

Catalogue Raisonné Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 022.
DescriptionJug. Spherical body, tilted spout. Knobs on side of neck. Decoration, careless horizontal bands and spirals, buff on reddish brown ground. About half the vase is lacking.
ProvenanceAccording 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