Sherd
Bowl
MS4700.13
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4700.13 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Open bowl with flat, outturned rim and slightly convex profile. Medium textured, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay with light and dark inclusions, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Wheelmade (?). Completely dark painted. Added white: retorted spirals on exterior. Large section from side preserved; surface eroded. A common motif. For discussion see Walberg 1983: Motif 5. |
| Height | 13.2 cm |
| Length | 20.3 cm |
| Width | 1.2 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 21 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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