Rim Sherd
Cup
MS4628.5B
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4628.5B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan II |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | [Joins with MS4628.5A] Rim-sherd from a carinated cup; fine ridging on upper section. Fine, brown (7.5YR 5/2) to redder clay, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Added white: borad line around vase and rising to rim. Although the carinated cup begins in MM IB, the ridged examples are not made before MM II. For the date see the examples from House A at Vasilike, vol. I. nos. 257-258. Bibliography: Silverman 1978 a: 36, no. 72, and pl. 3a, no. 5. |
| Height | 4.8 cm |
| Length | 5.1 cm |
| Width | 0.35 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 9 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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