Body Sherd

Several non-joining body-sherds from a large closed vessel (a jar?). Medium textured, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with light and dark inclusions, with decoration in brown to reddish brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Field of joined spirals with solid centers, with dots as filling ornaments in the background. Compare Seager 1910: fig. 9 (Pseira); Evans 1921-35: II, fig. 245 (Knossos); Marinatos 1968-76: II, pl. E8 (Akrotiri); Marinatos and Hirmer 1976: pl. 80 (Pseira). For the development of the motif see Niemeier 1985: 104-5 and fig. 44.