Rim Sherd

Rim-sherd from a straight-sided cup. Fine, pink (5 YR 7/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in reddish brown to brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Band on rim; foliate band (FM 64) with center of double lines containing row of dots. Comments: LM I. A common type. Compare vol. I, no. 50 and (among others) Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 9, no. 19 (Gournia). The foliate band develops from more naturalstic examples (in LM IA) to a schematic series of motifs composed of rows of dots or crescents (in LM IB). For discussion of the motif see Niemeier 1980: 36-37.