stirrup jar MS4494
Record Summary
Source Information
- Find Site: Tourloti - Plakalona
- Relative Date: Late Minoan IIIC Early
- Object Type: stirrup jar
- Petrography:
Bibliography
- Betancourt, PP. Minoan Objects Excavated from Vasilike, Pseira, Sphoungaras, Priniatikos Pyrgos, and Other Sites. Vol. 1 of The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. 1983.
Associated Samples
Source
- Soil sample: false
- Notes: Marine style; globular; Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4 to 5YR 7/4) clay with decoration in reddish brown (5YR 5/3) to dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) paint
- Object condition: One handle and mouth of spout missing, otherwise intact; surface eroded
- Object type: stirrup jar
- Published: true
- Object url: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/172233
- Date: Late Minoan IIIC Early
- Excavation date: 1905-1906
- Current location: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
- Institution id: MS4494
- Absolute date: 1175 BCE
- Production location: western Siteia foothills
- Site id: oa2017sit1
Site
- Oa id: oa2017sit1
- Geo coords: 35.159722, 25.938056
- Name: Tourloti - Plakalona
- Notes: LM III cemetery located down the slope from the modern town of Tourloti. The tombs at the site have seen several independent excavations from 1900 onward.
- Director id: oa2017per3
- Date: 1905-1906
- Atlas url: http://digitalcrete.ims.forth.gr/sites_display.php?l=1&id=771
- Region: Crete