Rhyton

MS4704.6C

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4704.6C
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Conical rhyton with convex profile and a high handle incised three times vertically, with a clay rivet at the juncture with the the rim. Fine, very pale brown (10 YR 7/3) clay with a darker core, with decoration in black paint and added red paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Lines on rim; outside of rim painted; band of zigzags with the corners filled with chevrons; paint on handle. Added red: bands between the dark bands; zigzags and chevrons between the dark zigzags. Section from rim preserved; surface eroded. Comments: LM I. From A 13. MS4704.6 to MS4704.9, 10, 11, and 12 come from two or more rhyta with similar decoration. Compare Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 8, no. 19 (Gournia). The shape is similar to Marinatos 1968-76: pl. 64 (Akrotiri).

Height 4.2 cm
Length 4.7 cm
Width 0.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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