2006.22.T, Mycenaean Stirrup-Jar Late Helladic IIIA:2 (1374 - 1300 BCE) Height: 9.6 cm Width: 12.8 cm

Shape explanation (2006.22.T)

Stirrup jars are also called false-necked jars. This is because the post between the handles resembles the neck and is therefore sometimes referred to as the "false neck." Three shapes of stirrup jars were popular in the LHIIIA:2 period (1374 -1300 BCE). They were: conical-piriform, globular, and squat (1). The example in the University of Colorado collection is a squat stirrup jar.

Author: Jeff Gingras

(1) P.A. Mountjoy, Mycenaean Pottery: An Introduction . (Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology 1993): 77.