Body Sherd
MS4637.76
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.76 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from a large closed vessel. Medium textured, pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) to darker clay, with light and dark inclusions, with decoration in black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Band of crescents and wavy lines. Surface eroded. Probably part of an incompletely preserved foliate band. |
| Height | 10.4 cm |
| Length | 9.9 cm |
| Width | 1.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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