Body Sherd
MS4637.68
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.68 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from a closed vessel. Medium textured, very pale brown (10YR 7-8/3) clay with light and dark inclusions, with decoration in brown paint and added red paint. Wiped with water and possibly burnished. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Band of berries or flower buds above or below bands. Added red: band between tw dark bands. Suface eroded. |
| Height | 7.5 cm |
| Length | 8.5 cm |
| Width | 1.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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