Body Sherd
MS4617.27
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4617.27 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan I | Middle Minoan II | Middle Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from a closed vessel. Medium textured, brown (7.5 YR 5/2) clay with a browner core with light and dark inclusions, with decoration in black paint. Wiped with water. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Bands and diagonal lines (hatched triangles?). Comments: MM I-III. Marked "ghem B," in Greek. From Deposit B. For comments on the Middle Minoan Dark-on-light Style see MS4638.1. The hatched triangles suggest that the sherd may antedate MM II. |
| Height | 6.4 cm |
| Length | 6.8 cm |
| Width | 0.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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