Body Sherd

Body-sherd from a large closed vessel. Coarse textured, reddish brown (2.5YR 4-5/4) clay with a paler surface, with light and dark inclusions, with decoration in reddish brown to black paint, and added white (10YR 8/1) paint. Wiped with water (or slipped?) and possibly burnished. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Two horizontal bands with unknown decorations above and below them. Added red: band between the dark bands. Added white: lines on upper design; horizontal ladder motif on upper dark band; leaf-like tendrils flandked by bands on lower dark band. Surface eroded. Generally similar are Hawes et al. 1908: 43, fig. 4, and pl. 9, nos. 18 and 31 (Gournia); Platon 1971: pl. on p. 117 (Kato Zakros).