Body Sherd

Body-sherd from a large closed vessel. Medium textrued, pale yellow (2.5-5Y 8/3) clay with a grayer surface, with light and dark inclusions, with decoration in black paint, added red paint, and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Horizontal bands, with depending triangles. Added red: bands between the dark bands. Added white: traces of leaf-like tendrils on upper dark band; dots flanked by thin bands on central dark band. Surface eroded. The motifs are common in the LM IB pottery of Gournia and other east Cretan sites. Compare (among others) Platon 1971: pl. on p. 117 (Kato Zakros).