Body Sherd
MS4637.23B
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.23B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Three non-joining sherds from one or more semiglobular cups with large everted rims. Fine, light brown (7.5 YR 6/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in reddish brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Band on rim; crocus (FM 10) flanked by groups of crescents; bands below. Not from the same cup as MS4637.11 and MS4637.110, as previously suggested (Silverman 1978 a: 70-71). For the motif see vol. I, no. 28, and the discusssion of Niemeier 1980: 22-23. |
| Height | 5.4 cm |
| Length | 7.5 cm |
| Width | 0.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
| Other Number | 572 (P. Betancourt's 1991 publication) - Other Number |
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