Stirrup

Look at the shape of the handles and the spout on this clay jar. Well, it is the resemblance to a horse stirrup that gave the jar its name: the stirrup jar. During the manufacturing process, these parts of the vase were produced separately and then attached to the main body.See Lewis 1983, The Manufacture of Early Mycenaean Pottery (Dissertation, University of Minnesota), 38-40. The jar was now complete, and as soon as it had dried to the point that it became leather-hard, it could be painted. It then was time to move it into the kiln. If you want to join us into the kiln, be our guest, or maybe you just want to move ahead to the next step where we will meet the octopus.