Rim Sherd

Cup

MS4615.1

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4615.1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Locus North Trench
Period Early Minoan III
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique White-on-Dark Ware
Description

Rim-sherd with handle from a conical cup with one handle. Fine, pink (5 YR 8/4) to reddish yellow (5 YR 7/6) clay, covered with dark brown paint, wiht decoration in added white paint. Dark paint on rim and exterior, with handle reserved. Added white: pendent hatched triangles. East Cretan White-on-dark Ware. East Cretan conical cups from this period, both with and without handles, are often decorated with this motif. See (among others) Hall 1904-05: pls. 26, nos. 1-2 an d27, nos. 1-4 (Gournia); Seager 1912: fig. 49, nos. M 61-63 (Mochlos); Bosanquet and Dawkins 1923: fig. 5b (Palaikastro); Demargne 1945: pl. 29, no. 8056 (Mallia).

Height 7.2 cm
Length 4.9 cm
Width 0.45 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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