2004.198: Small Jar with Pedestal Base (Kandila type)
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2004.198
- Title
- Small Jar with Pedestal Base (Kandila type)
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 2500 BCE-2300 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Cyclades
- Period
- Cycladic period, Early
- Culture
- Cycladic
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/55450
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- white marble
- Technique
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 10.12 x 6.82 cm (4 x 2 11/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- From the collection of Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Benjamin and Lilian Hertzberg
- Accession Year
- 2004
- Object Number
- 2004.198
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Squat jar consists of neck, body and foot. Four circular depressions creating "four corners" on body with remnants of what would have been pierced protrusions for running leather or fabric straps through for hanging the vessel. The shoulder of the vessel appears lopsided. Neck appears to have been restored and/or painted over as the surface appears different from body and foot. Underside of foot has depression. Heavy burial accretions accumulated on bottom half of body and pedestal.
Verification Level
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