Sherd

MS4628.11

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4628.11
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Middle Minoan IB | Middle Minoan II
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Barbotine Ware
Description

Body-sherd from a closed vessel: series of knobs (Barbotine Ware) forms a triangle. Fine, very pale brown (10YR 8/4) clay, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Added white: traces. Surface eroded. For discussion see 367 [MS4628.10]. Bibliography: Silverman 1978 a: 38, no. 79, and pl. 2b, no. 21.

Height 3.5 cm
Length 5 cm
Width 0.535 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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