Body Sherd

MS4617.10

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4617.10
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Middle Minoan II
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from a closed vessel. Fine, pinkish white (7.5 YR 8/2) clay, with black paint over selected areas, with decoration in added red and added white paint. Wiped with water but not burnished. Added red: dot within a reserved rectangular space. Added white: tendrils. Surface eroded. Comments: MM II. Marked "ghem B", in Greek. From Deposit B. Kamares Ware, probably not local.

Height 3.9 cm
Length 4.3 cm
Width 0.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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