Rim Sherd

Cup

MS4628.20

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4628.20
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Middle Minoan II
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Rim-sherd with handle from a semiglobular cup. Fine, pale red ( 2.5YR 6/2) clay with a slightly darker core, coverd with unevenly colored paint, mostly dark reddish brown, with decoreation in added red and added white paint. Painted on interior and exterior. Added red: arcs and other motifs, only partly preserved. Added white: diagonal line and other motifs, only partly preserved. for arcs see Walberg 1976: Motifs 9 and 17. The motifs in added red and added whit were probably related to those illustrated by Walberg 1983: Motif 24, nos. 17-19. Bibliography: Silverman 1978 a: 34, no. 61; fig. 4, no. 4; and pl. 2b, no. 11; Betancourt 1984: appendix, no. 47; Myer 1984: 62-63; Rapp and Gifford 1984.

Height 5.5 cm
Length 6 cm
Thickness 0.2 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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