Body Sherd
MS4637.96
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.96 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IIIB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from a closed vessel. fine, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) clay, with decoration in brown to dark brown paint. Wiped with water and probably burnished. Interior unpainted. Vertical zone of tiny dashes; net pattern. Comments: LM IIIB (?). Possibly an antithetic motif. Compare Kanta 1980: pl. 89, no. 11 (Chania); Despines 1979: pl. 141 above (Tinos). For the motif on ivory, see Sakellarkes 1981: 257, fig. 4, no. 6 (Idaean Cave). |
| Height | 4.2 cm |
| Length | 5 cm |
| Width | 0.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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