Body Sherd

MS4615.42

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4615.42
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Locus N Trench
Period Early Minoan III
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique White-on-Dark Ware
Description

Body-sherd from a cup or some other open vessel. Fine, very pale brown (10 YR 7/4) clay, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Added white: lines (motifs not fully preserved, possibly a circle motif with multiple connecting lines). East Cretan White-on-dark Ware. For isolated circle motifs in this ware see the discussion of Betancourt 1984 c: 32, Motif 10, and the examples pictured in fig. 3-7.

Height 2.15 cm
Length 2.1 cm
Width 0.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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