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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