Rim Sherd

Bowl

MS4617.29

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4617.29
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Early Minoan III
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Rim-sherd from a shallow, open bowl. Medium to coarse textured, reddish brown (5 YR 5/4) clay with a paler surface, with light and dark inclusions, covered in interior with black paint, wiht decoration in added white (2.5 YR 8/2) paint. Handmade. Dark painted on rim and interior. Added white: bands on interior. Comments: EM III. Marked "ghem B," in Greek. From Deposit B. East Cretan White-on-dark Ware. For comments see MS4615.15.

Height 4.2 cm
Length 6.5 cm
Width 1.2 cm
Outside Diameter 40 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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