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Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus
Helladic, Mycenaean, Late Helladic IIIC, ca. 1200–1100 B.C.
H. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); diameter 8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm)
Purchase, Louise Eldridge McBurney Gift, 1953 (53.11.6)

The shape takes its name from the configuration of the spout and the two attached handles. Such jars were commonly used to transport liquids. Mycenaean artists adopted the marine motifs from Minoan antecedents.


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