Rim Sherd
Cup
MS4637.1
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.1 |
| 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, light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) paint with a paler surface, with decoration in unevenly colored red to brown paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Band at rim; zone of floral motifs. Added white: pendent concentric semicircles at rim in interior; group of paint flecks above thin horizontal band on dark band on exterior. For the added white decoration compare Bosanquet and Dawkins 1923: pl. 16c (Palaikastro). |
| Height | 3.7 cm |
| Length | 8.7 cm |
| Width | 0.35 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 11 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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