Body Sherd

MS4617.12

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4617.12
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, very pale brown (10 YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in uneven brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Double axe (?). Comments: LM I. Marked "ghem B," in Greek. From Deposit B. Compare MS4169 for double axe motif.

Height 5 cm
Length 5.3 cm
Width 0.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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