Base Sherd

MS4628.16

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4628.16
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Middle Minoan II
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Base-sherd from a closed vessel. Fine, pink (5YR 7/4) clay, covered with black lustrous paint,, with decoration in added white paint. Added white: seven pairs of thin white lines radiating from bottom of base up onto the vessel body. For vertical lines see Wahlberg 1976: Motif 33. Bibliography: Silverman 1978 a: 37, no. 75, and pl. 2b, no. 14.

Height 5.35 cm
Length 5.1 cm
Width 0.25 cm
Outside Diameter 3.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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