jug

Object Number

SMP18101

Name

jug

Description

Fragment of a pottery jug

three parts

formerly glued together

originaly four fragments. Parts of rim

incomplete neck

and beginning of shoulder. wheel-made

fine fabric. Horizontal lines on surface (traces from manufacture)

finer on outside than inside. Everted rim (diameter c. 9.5cm)

cylindrical neck (slightly tapering upwards

wider at top)

rounded/curved joint with shoulder. Traces of broken-off vertical handle underneath the rim. Rim decorated with parallel oblique grooves (impressed with broad and rounded/soft utensil). Outside neck/body surface

rim

and area underneath rim (inside wavy band max. c. 3cm thick) covered with dark slip (weathered). Two splatters on unslipped surface of inside neck.

Specimen Count

3

Preservation State

Fragment

Collection Date From

1951

Department

Knossos

Collection

Stratigraphical Museum

Other IDs

SMP19087

EMu IRN

164415