Body Sherd
MS4637.77
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4637.77 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
Period | Late Minoan I |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | [Along with MS 4637.69] Three non-joining body-sherds from a large closed vessel. Medium textured, unevenly colored light brownish gray (10YR 5/2) to light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) clay with a very pale brown surface, with light and dark inclusions, with decoration in red to black paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Conglomerate design (FM 76) between bands, with plants below. Added white: row of dots flanked by thin bands on the lower dark bands near the conglomerate; thin bands on the other dark bands. Surface eroded. Interior coated with plaster. For the conglomerate motif see 734 [MS4617.7]; for the plants see 707 [MS4637.55]. |
Height | 6.5 cm |
Length | 6.5 cm |
Width | 0.85 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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