Sherd
Cup
MS4628.3
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4628.3 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan II | Middle Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Straight-sided cup. Fine, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) clay with a dark gray core, covered with dark brown, almost black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Painted on interior, exterior, and bottom of base. Added white: diagonal line (part of a crescent?) and small squiggle on body; band on lower body. Complete profile preserved. A standard MM shape. Bibliography: Silverman 1978 a: 34, no. 64, and pl. 2b, no. 3; Betancourt 1984; appendix, no. 41; Myer 1984; 62-63; Rapp and Gifford 1984. |
| Height | 4.6 cm |
| Length | 5.2 cm |
| Width | 0.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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