Body Sherd
MS4637.54A
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.54A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Three non-joining body sherds from the shoulder of a closed vessel. Fine, pink (5YR 6-7/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in yellowish red to dark reddish brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior unpainted. Grass or reed (FM 16) above band. A very common motif. See (among others) Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 7, no. 24 (Gournia). For discussion see Furumark 1941: Motif 16; Niemeier 1980: 27-28; 1985: Motif 15. Also compare 627 [MS4121] and 743 [MS4637.120]. |
| Height | 6.3 cm |
| Length | 9.3 cm |
| Width | 0.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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