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Clay jug

Π33101
Stone (Poros stone)
Mended from a few sherds
Height: 17 cm.Base diameter: 6.5 cm.Rim diameter: 13 cm.
Phaistos
Settlement west of the palace court, area Ι
Hellenistic period:
175-150 BC:
Gallery:
XX
Case:
198
Exhibition thematic unit:
Classical - Hellenistic - Roman period (5th c. BC-4th c. AD). Cities and Sanctuaries
Cities
Description
The jug is one of the most common vessels for serving and pouring wine in Hellenistic Crete. It is thought to have been produced by the Knossos pottery workshop. This example has a typical oval, deep and very open shape reminiscent of a tulip flower, whence its conventional name of “tulip jug”. It is covered with black glaze and decorated under the rim with an incised wavy branch of ivy leaves and flowers in the West Slope Style.
Bibliography:
Egglezou, Μ. Ελληνιστική κεραμική Κρήτης. Κεντρική Κρήτη. Athens, 2005, 133 and 203-204, pls 27 and 99γ.
Author:
S. P.


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