Cup
MS4119
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4119 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Locus | House Tomb II, Room 2 |
| Period | Middle Minoan IIIA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Straight-sided cup; slightly concave profile. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) to reddish yellow (5 YR 7/6) clay, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Dark painted, inside and out. Added white: band on rim; running spirals above two bands. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing, including handle; surface eroded. A very common type. Compare (among others) Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 6, no. 35 (Gournia). For the spirals see Walberg 1983: Motif 2.) |
| Height | 7.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 9 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
| Other Number | T.10.4 (?) - Other Number |
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