Sherd
Cup
MS4637.41
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.41 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | [Three joined sherds: MS4637.41A, MS4637.41B, and MS4637.41C] Semiglobular cup. Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in light red to black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Groups of three growing foliate bands above bands. Bottom of base painted. Part of lower part of body preserved, without handle; restored from fragments. The use of foliate bands in groups, rather than as a horizontal motif, is an East Cretan style. Compare their diagonal use on a cup from Palaikastro (Bosanquet and Dawkins 1923: pl. 16a). |
| Height | 7.7 cm |
| Length | 11.7 cm |
| Width | 0.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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