Sherd

Body-sherd from a jar. Medium textured, light brown (7.5 YR 6/4) clay with decoration in dark brown to black paint. Handmade. Wiped with water. Linked discs or disc and loops. Comments: MM I-III. Marked "B22" on back, in pencil. From House B, Room 22. The Middle Minoan Dark-on-Light Style is common in eastern Crete. It begins in EM III (Hall 1904-05: pl. 31, nos. 1, 3, 6, and 11, from Gournia), but its main period is from MMI until early LM I. For discussion of the style in general, see Betancourt 1977; 1985: 85-89. For this motif see Betancourt 1977: 343-344 and vol. I, no. 8.