Body Sherd

MS4637.34

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.34
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan IA
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from an "in-and-out bowl." Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Wavy line and solid semicircles between bands, with slanting dentate band below in interior. Linked running spirals with floral motif in center. For the "in-and-out bowl" see vol. I, no. 23.

Height 5 cm
Length 5.3 cm
Width 0.8 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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