Body Sherd
Cup
MS4699.1
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4699.1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan II | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body sherd from a carinated open vessel (cup or bowl). Fine, hard, pinkish white (7.5 YR 8/2) clay, covered with dark paint, inside and out. Stamped decoration of two types: triangles with lines and "bow ties". Surface very eroded; added paint probably once present but not preserved. Not local; probably from one of the palaces. Thin "egg shell ware" of this type was not produced at Gournia. Soles suggests (surely correctly) that this sherd probably comes from central Crete (1979 a: 151, note 18). |
| Outside Diameter | 3.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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