Straight-sided Three-handled Alabastron (Angular Squat Jar)
1375-1300 BCE
Description
The sides are slightly concave and the bottom is slightly rounded. Short splaying collar neck with flaring rim. The handles join at the shoulder and have zonal U's around vessel body, but not under the handles. U's do not touch top or bottom lines. Concentric thick and thin bands around body and on base. Gray-pink clay with buff slip with red-range paint, chipped.
Dimensions
9.5 x 12 cm (3 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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