Body Sherd

MS4637.15

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.15
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from the shoulder of a closed vessel. Fine, light brown (7.5 YR 6-7/4) clay with a grayer surface, with decoration in reddish brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interlocking spirals above band. Comments: Proabably LM I. The motif occurs from MM III to LM IIIA: 1.

Height 8.3 cm
Length 6.5 cm
Width 0.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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