Body Sherd
MS4637.9
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.9 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from a closed vessel. Fine, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in red paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Leaf-like tendril stems, with dots, below band at base of neck. A complex version of the motif (for which see Vol. I, no. 30). |
| Height | 6.2 cm |
| Length | 7 cm |
| Width | 0.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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