Body Sherd

MS4637.73B

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.73B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

[Together with MS4637.73A and MS4637.73C; joined to MS4637.73A.] Body-sherd from a closed vessel. Medium textured, very pale brown (10YR 7-8/3) clay with light and dark inclusions, with ddecoraiton in brown paint and added red paint. Wiped with water and possibly burnished. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Band of berries or flower buds above or below bands. Added red: band between two dark bands. Surface eroded..

Height 7 cm
Length 13.2 cm
Width 0.7 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904
Other Number 745 (P. Betancourt's 1991 publication) - Other Number

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