Body Sherd

Cup

MS4637.12

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.12
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan IA
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from a semiglobular cup. Fine, reddish yellow (5 YR 7/5-6) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in red paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Band at rim; running spirals with large central dots. Added white: circles of tiny dots on the large central dots of the spirals. Similar to MS4637.19

Height 3.9 cm
Length 4.6 cm
Width 0.2 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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