Sherd

MS4637.8

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.8
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Rim-sherd from a straight-sided cup. Fine, pinkish gray (7.5YR 7-8/2) clay, with decoration in black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Grass or reed (FM 16). See vol. I, no. 47. A very common motif, discussed by Furumark 1941: Motif 16, and Niemeier 1980: 27-28.

Height 7.6 cm
Length 5.3 cm
Width 0.35 cm
Outside Diameter 14 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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