Bowl
MS4489
From: Greece | Crete | Priniatiko Pyrgos
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4489 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Priniatiko Pyrgos |
| Period | Middle Minoan Period | Late Minoan IA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Shape: Conical bowl with slightly ogival profile, without handles. Fabric: Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with pink (7.5YR 7/4) to red (2.5YR 5/6) slip and decoration in red (2.5YR 5/6) to dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) paint. Self-slipped. Decoration: "In-and-out" bowl. Interior has two bands at bottom of bowl, with zone of wavy zigzags above. Rim painted; ripple patterns (tortoise shell ripple) on exterior, with band below. Resting surface slipped but unpainted. Condition: only one side extant. |
| Height | 5.6 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 15.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); E. H. Hall, 1912 |
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