VesselsGraeco-Roman
Jug
Description
Jug; flat base, square body with impressed sides, applied wide ribbon handle. Intact; dark brown dirt accretions.
Dimensions
12.9 x 12 cm (5 1/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Charles Eliot Norton and Richard Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1895), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1895.
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