stirrup jar

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Object Type
Museum number: 1893,0712.6
Description: Pottery globular stirrup jar, Furumark Shape 175. Air-hole between spout and handle. Body painted with thick and thin red-brown bands with two rows of zigzags (FM 61) towards shoulder. Shoulder zone painted with semicircles (FM 43) and Mycenaean flowers (FM 18) flanking chevrons and semicircles. Handles striped. Spiral on domed false mouth.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1090BC-1060BC
Production place: Made in: Greece
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Aegina
Materials
Type series
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 7.70 centimetres (base); Diameter: 5.60 centimetres (false-mouth); Diameter: 22.30 centimetres (max); Diameter: 4 centimetres (spout); Height: 25.50 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (A1092); Furumark 1941 / The Mycenaean Pottery. Analysis and Classification. (FM 175:46); Mountjoy 1999 / Regional Mycenean Decorated Pottery (Attica 558) (p. 613); Hiller 1975 / Alt-Ägina IV,1: Mykenische Keramik (no. 374)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1893
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1893,0712.6

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