Rim Sherd
MS4637.65
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.65 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Two joining rim-sherds from a closed vessel. Fine, light red (2.5YR 6/6) clay with a pink slip, with decoration in red to black paint. Burnished. Band on rim, inside and out. Lobes flanked by curved lines. for a discussion of the motif see Niemeier 1980: 40-41. Shape generally similar to 628 (MS 4637.6). Bibliography: Silverman 1978 a: 70, no. 180, 74-75, nos. 195-196, and pl. 12e, nos. 3-4. |
| Height | 11.8 cm |
| Length | 17.2 cm |
| Width | 0.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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