Collection Online

Browse by artist name

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Stirrup jar (Mycenaean)

(CYPRUS)
Stirrup jar (Mycenaean)
 1300 BCE-1220 BCE

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
13.8 × 20.8 cm diameter

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1892

Reproduction requests

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Greece / Cyprus

Accession Number
72D-D1A

Department
Antiquities

Physical description
Wheel-made, the inverted piriform body with short, concave foot, the buff clay with cream surface decorated in brown shading to red, with concentric circles on protusion between the handles, the shoulder with four motifs each consisting of a curved line framed on two sides with a continuous group of two or three lines and on two sides with multiple short transverse lines. The body has six broad bands below the handles, three bands of multiple fine lines, and near the widest point a pair of medium lines with chevrons between.

Explore the collection

Plate (Attic geometric black-figure ware) GREECE, Attica Inner anthropoid coffin of Tjeseb EGYPT The Crossing of the Red Sea Nicolas POUSSIN Lekanis lid (South Italian red-figure ware) SOUTH ITALY Pataikos amulet EGYPT Jar JORDAN, Pella, tomb 62 The Hands and the Faces John BRACK Beaker (Gnathia ware) ITALY, Apulia Miniature oinochoe (south Italian painted ware) ITALY, (Apulia); XENON GROUP (attributed to) Head of Septimius Severus ITALY Alabastron (Gnathia ware) SOUTH ITALY Bracelet SYRIA Fragment of a brick IRAQ, (Babylon) Cosmetic palette EGYPT, Diospolis Parva, Cemetery U, grave 54 Flask EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Skyphos (Etruscan bucchero ware) ITALY, Etruria Aryballos GREECE, Corinth Jar EGYPT Vase EGYPT Bowl SYRIA / CYPRUS Lekythos (Attic black figure ware) GREECE, Athens Comb EGYPT, Matmar, grave 31/5002 Aryballos (Italo-Corinthian black-figure ware) GREECE, Corinth Lekythos (South Italian red-figure ware) SOUTH ITALY String of beads EGYPT Clay tablet IRAQ Stamped brick IRAQ, Ur Fragment of a brick IRAQ Unguent bottle MEDITERRANEAN, (Egypt) Flask EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN