Body Sherd

Cup (uncertain)

MS4637.102

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.102
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan IB
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from a cup (?). Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in reddish yellow paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Tortoise-shell ripple (with lines much thinner than usual), and bands. Comments: MM III-LM IB. Ripple Ware. See vol. I, no. 24.

Height 3.2 cm
Length 4.3 cm
Width 0.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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