Amphora
MS4665
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4665 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Locus | House G |
| Period | Late Minoan I | Middle Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Oval-mouthed amphora. Coarse, light red to red (2.5 YR 5-6/8) clay with light and dark inclusions, slipped with pink (7.5 YR 8/4) slip, with decoration in black paint. Bands, in groups, but shoulder frieze (if any) not preserved. Intact; surface eroded.A common storage shape in Crete from MM III to LM IB, known from Gournia (Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 2, no. 12) and many other sites. For discussion see Bosanquet and Dawkins 1923: 64. |
| Height | 36.8 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 14 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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