Lid Sherd

MS4615.34

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4615.34
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

Complete profile from a lid; handle(s) not preserved. Medium textured, light red (2.5 YR 6/8) clay with a grayer surface, covered with black paint wiht decoration in added white paint; underside unpainted. Added white: edge of unknown designs on upper surface; rising hatched triangles on edge. East Cretan White-on-dark Ware. Compare 352.

Height 7.6 cm
Length 4.4 cm
Width 0.85 cm
Outside Diameter 32 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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