Rim Sherd
Cup
MS4628.20
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
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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