This is a representative example from an important group of stirrup jars bearing inscriptions in the Linear B script, found in the Mycenaean palace at Thebes. The jar has a circular base, long pear-shaped body, and thick strap handles connected to a false spout. The true spout is on the shoulder. The jar is decorated with red horizontal straight and wavy lines on the base, shoulder and false spout. A 12 cm-tall painted inscription consisting of three words in Linear B begins under the spout and covers the entire belly. The first word is a male name in nominative case. The second is the name of a city in western Crete. Many of these jars were indeed imported from western Crete, though some were made locally in Thebes. They were used to transport goods, mainly wine and oil, and prove the trade links between the two regions.