Bowl
MS4630.2
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4630.2 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
Period | Late Minoan IIIA:2 |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Semiglobular cup with one vertical handle and small open spout at a right angle to the handle. Fine, pale yellow (5 Y 7/3) clay, with decoration in dark olive gray paint. Wiped with water, and possibly lightly burnished. Interior painted. Band on rim; dots below rim; frieze of isolated cross-shaped motifs composed of dots bounded by circles at the centers, groups of lines of increasing length forming theh crosses' arms, and dotted rosettes within the angles. Fragmentary. Comments: LM IIIA: 2. For the shape, a standard one in the period, see Popham 1970: fig. 16, no. I (Knossos). |
Height | 4 cm |
Length | 11 cm |
Thickness | 0.3 cm |
Outside Diameter | 14 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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