Krater

MS4673

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4673
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan IIIA | Late Minoan IIIB
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Krater with broad, deep bowl on a small ring-base; ridge below the small rounded rim; two horizontal handles. Coarse, unevenly colored reddish yellow (7.5 YR 7/6) to grayer clay, with light and dark inclusions, with decration in black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Band at rim; octopus trail on handle-zone; bands on body; lower part of body painted. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. Comments: LM IIIA: 2-IIIB. From B 36. For discussion and parallels see Silverman 1978a: 184.

Height 42 cm
Outside Diameter 46 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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