Rim Sherd

Teapot

MS4615.32

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4615.32
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Locus N Trench
Period Early Minoan III
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique White-on-Dark Ware
Description

Rim-sherd from a teapot. Medium textured, unevenly colored clay, dark brown (7.5 YR 4/4) to black, wiht a black surface, with light and dark inclusions, covered with black paint, wiht decoration in added white paint. Added white: dots on top of rim; two bands at rim; part of another design below. East Cretan White-on-dark Ware. The shape was probably like Seager 1912: fig. 49, no. M74 (Mochlos).

Height 4 cm
Width 3.1 cm
Outside Diameter 11 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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