Body Sherd
MS4637.87
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.87 |
| 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, reddish brown (2.5YR 4-5/4) clay, with light and dark inclusions, covered with pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) slip, with decoration in reddish brown to black paint. Burnished. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Leaf-like tendrils below band. Burned. For the motif see Niemeier 1980: 34-36. |
| Height | 7.2 cm |
| Length | 10.9 cm |
| Width | 0.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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