Body Sherd

MS4617.11

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4617.11
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from a closed vessel. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in unevenly colored brown to black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Running spirals. Surface eroded. Comments: LM I. Marked "ghem G," in Greek. From Deposit B. For similar spirals see Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 9, no. 27 (Gournia).

Height 5 cm
Length 6.2 cm
Width 0.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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