[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Title
- [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Stirrup jar Vase C501
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Minoan (vase painter)
- Description
- Tall pottery stirrup jar (or false-necked jar); thick, coarse clay with buff slip and black-red paint; decorated on each side with a large painted octopus occupying most of the vessel, framed on top and bottom by parallel lines; restored from fragments; each handle is incised with a ￂ sign; Late Minoan fabric from Crete. --The British Museum Kiely, Thomas, Kourion, 2011; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Furumark, A, The Mycenaean Pottery. Analysis and Classification., Stockholm, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Adademien, 1941; Åström, Paul, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition vol. IV. Part IC. The Late Cypriot Bronze Age. Architecture and pottery, Lund, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1972; Murray, A S; Smith, A H; Walters, H B, Excavations in Cyprus, London, BMP, 1900
- Inscription
- Inscription Type: pottery mark Inscription Script: Linear B (?) Inscription Language: Ancient Greek (?) Inscription Transliteration: 'da' (?) Inscription Comment: The incised sign is similar to 'da' in Linear B but also 'ta' in the later Classical Syllabary but it is unclear if the sign was added before or after this vase came to Cyprus. See also AJA LXV (1941), 267, fig. 11; Berytus XIV, 37; Catling & Karageorghis, Minoica in Cyprus, ABSA LV 55 (1960), 118 no. 23. --The British Museum
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Crete, Greece (creation) Site D, Tomb 50, Episkopí (Kourion), Limassol, Cyprus (discovery)
- Temporal
- 1375-1200 BCE
- Subject
- Mycenaean 1400-1100 Neolithic, Mycenaean Pottery I
- Style Period
- Late Minoan IIIB Late Minoan IIIA2 Minoan
- Work Type
- stirrup jars
- Date
- -1375/-1200
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_04669
- Item Locator
- Box 10, Section 28
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 45 cm Width: 30 cm Weight: 4 kg
- Material
- pottery | wheel-made; slipped; painted
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Minoan
- Id Current Repository
- 1896,0201.265
