Body Sherd

Bowl

MS4637.46

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.46
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from a bowl. Fine, pink (7.5YR 8/4) clay, with decoration in reddish yellow to black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Bands on interior. Iris (FM 10A) above a band. Surface eroded. For a discussion of the motif see Niemeier 1980: 24, and fig. 5, nos 4-5.

Height 6.5 cm
Length 6.2 cm
Width 0.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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