Body Sherd

Strainer

MS4617.5

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4617.5
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from a waisted strainer. Fine, unevenly colored light reddish brown (5 YR 6/5) clay with a pink surface, with decoration in unevenly colored brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Running spirals and other designs. Comments: LM I. Marked "ghem B," in Greek. From Deposit B. For the shape compare MS4617.3, but this example has a straight profile at the waist.

Height 3.7 cm
Length 7.1 cm
Width 0.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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