Ure Museum | Database

cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/38.4.5

Accession_Number

38.4.5

Shape

Jug

Shape_description

Hand-made, body is wider towards the base, base is flatened. Neck and handle are missing. Small flat lug (mini handle) on either side of the missing handle.

Material

Terracotta

Fabric

Mycenaean

Fabric_description

Munsell_color

10YR 7/4

Decoration

Brick red detail on pale buff background. Three groups of three red lines roughly painted, one group of two red lines, all are verticle lines curving to the left at the bottom, between a horizontal red band on the jug shoulder, and a horizontal red band on the lower body of the jug.

Inscriptions

Condition

Incomplete: neck of jug is missing from the shoulder upwards; the handle is missing; detail slightly faded. Some white deposit.

Technique/Style

Provenance

From a burial in the Argolid

Period

Late Helladic III

Date

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2003.01.0003.jpg	Body of a Mycenaean jug, next to the neck and handles of a Mycenaean stirrup jar (14.9.46).
2003.01.0090.jpg	Small jug, missing neck and handle.
2003.98.0101.jpg	Front view of a Mycenaen jug, showing the exterior pattern.
2003.98.0102.jpg	Side view of a Mycenaean jug, showing the pattern on the body.
2003.98.0103.jpg	Top view of a Mycenaean jug, showing the interior and some of the pattern on the body.
2003.98.0104.jpg	Underside view of a Mycenaean jug, showing the base.