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MS4735

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4735
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Locus South Wing of Palace
Period Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Cylindrical pyxis with flange for lid and two horizontal handles. Coarse, light red (2.5 YR 6/6) clay with light and dark inclusions, covered with red paint, with decoration in added white paint. Wiped with water. Added white: traces of spirals. Restored from fragments; some bits missing; surface eroded. From the South Wing of the "Palace," a context dating from LM I.

Height 10.7 cm
Outside Diameter 16 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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