Body Sherd

MS4637.20

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.20
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from an open vessel. Fine, light reddish brown (2.5 YR 6/4) clay with a darker core and a paler surface, with decoration in brown to black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Leaves or petals with double outline and central line, above band; circle in interstice between other elements. Surface eroded.

Height 6.3 cm
Length 4.7 cm
Width 0.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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