Sherd
MS4637.70
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.70 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | [Along with MS4637.75] Two non-joining body-sherds from a closed vessel. Medium textured, unevenly colored light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) clay shading to paler colors at the surface, with light and dark inclusions, with decoration in black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Circle divided into quadrants with concentric semi-circles in each quadrant; double axes with dots for finals. Surface eroded. For discussion of the double axe motif see 579 [MS4169] and Niemeier 1985: 116-120 and fig. 57. |
| Height | 7 cm |
| Length | 11.3 cm |
| Width | 0.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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