Rim Sherd
MS4637.71
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.71 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Rim-sherd with one horizontal handle from a bridge-spouted or side-spouted jar (?). Medium textured, pink (5YR 8/4) clay shading to light gray, with light and dark inclusions, with pink slip and decoration in reddish brown paint and added white paint. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Band at rim; top of handle painted, with lines around handle; joined circles with rosettes inside. Added white: thin bands on dark bands; tiny dots on circles. Surface eroded. |
| Height | 11.7 cm |
| Length | 17.4 cm |
| Width | 1 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 23 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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