Cup

Rim Sherd

MS4637.118

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.118
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan II | Late Minoan IIIA
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Rim-sherd from a cup. Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in dark reddish brown paint. Wiped with water (or slipped?), not burnished. Interior painted. Band on rim; rosette like motif above band. Comments: LM II-IIIA. The deate is based on the shape. For this motif used in isolation at Gournia see Hawes et al. 1908: 43, fig. 23, nos. 3 and 5.

Height 6.8 cm
Length 7.7 cm
Width 0.3 cm
Outside Diameter 16.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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