Body Sherd
MS4637.73A
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.73A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | [Together with MS4637.73B and MS4637.73C; joined to MS4637.73B.] 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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