Pithos
MS4648A.2
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4648A.2 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Technique | Handmade |
Description | Body-sherd from a pithos. Coarse, unevenly colored brown (7.5 YR 5/2-4) to reddish brown (5 YR 5/2) clay, with dark and light inclusions. Wiped with water. Not burnished. Handmade. Applied band with diagonal slashes. Trickle ornament. Comments: MM III-LM I. A common type. |
Height | 11.5 cm |
Length | 12.5 cm |
Thickness | 1.2 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
Other Number | 513 (P. Betancourt's 1991 publication) - Other Number |
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