Rhyton
MS4704.5B
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4704.5B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Conical rhyton. Fine, very pale brown (10 YR 8/3) clay, with decoration in reddish brown to dark reddish brown paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Series of friezes, separated by bands: joined running rossettes; foliate band; others not preserved. Added white: thin bands on dark bands; lines around rosettes. Section of body and non-joining sherd. Comments: LM I. See MS4121. Compare Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 7, no. 32 (Gournia); Marinatos 1968-76: V, pl. 63 (Aktotiri). |
| Height | 10.5 cm |
| Length | 5.9 cm |
| Width | 0.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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