Body Sherd
MS4637.104
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.104 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Rim-sherd from a semiglobular cup. Medium textured, pink (5YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in reddish brown to black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Band on rim; zone of leaf-like tendrils above two bands. For the motif see vol. I, no. 30. The motif is usually regarded as typical of LM IA, but it also survives into LM IB (Betancourt and Davaras 1986: fig. 16, no. PS 93, from Pseira). |
| Height | 5.5 cm |
| Length | 7.9 cm |
| Width | 0.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 9.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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