Body Sherd
MS4637.54C
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4637.54C |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
Period | Late Minoan I |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Three non-joining body sherds from the shoulder of a closed vessel. Fine, pink (5YR 6-7/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in yellowish red to dark reddish brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior unpainted. Grass or reed (FM 16) above band. A very common motif. See (among others) Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 7, no. 24 (Gournia). For discussion see Furumark 1941: Motif 16; Niemeier 1980: 27-28; 1985: Motif 15. Also compare 627 [MS4121] and 743 [MS4637.120]. |
Height | 10.7 cm |
Length | 8.1 cm |
Width | 0.45 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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