Body Sherd
MS4637.100
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.100 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IB | Late Minoan II |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from a closed vessel, perhaps a squat alabastron like vol. I, no. 65. Fine, reddish yello (5YR 6-7/6) clay, covered with pink slip, with decoration in yellowish red paint. Burnished. Wavy lines with dots (octopus with dots for the suckers on the tentacles?). Surface eroded. Compare vol. I, no. 65 (Pseira), with discussion. |
| Height | 4.65 cm |
| Length | 6 cm |
| Width | 0.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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