Rim Sherd

Cup

MS4617.2

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4617.2
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Middle Minoan I | Middle Minoan II | Middle Minoan III
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Rim-sherd from a conical or straight-sided cup. Fine, pink (10 YR 8/3) clay, with decoration in black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Band on interior of rim. Pendent concentric semicircles at rim, above bands. Comments: MM I-III. Marked "ghem B," in Greek. From Deposit B. Middle Minoan Dark-on-light Style. The quality of the dark paint suggest the MM date. The motif is common in MM IB-II in eastern Crete. For the style see MS4638.1.

Height 5.9 cm
Length 3.3 cm
Width 0.4 cm
Outside Diameter 13 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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