Piriform (Pear-Shaped) Jar
c. 1400–1300 BCE
- Medium
- ceramic
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.); Overall: 17.8 cm (7 in.); Diameter of base: 6.3 cm (2 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Greek, Mycenaean, Late Helladic IIIA1-2b
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Leo Mildenberg
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This shape was popular in its time as the amphora was several hundred years later, and probably served a similar function as a storage vessel. It was exported and imitated all over the Mediterranean world during the late Bronze Age.
