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MS4614.13
From: Greece | Crete | Vasiliki
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4614.13 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Vasiliki |
Period | Early Minoan IIB |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | From conical bowl. Similar to MS 4111. Fabric: Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with decoration in mottled light red (2.5YR 6/8) to black (N2.5/ ) paint. Decoration: Vasilike ware. Interior heavily burnished but not mottled (fired to an uneven red to brown color). Edge of underside painted, remainder not extant. Condition: One side of vessel preserved. Seager, Trans 1 (1904-1905) pl. 35 lower left; perhaps included with Luce, CMSec, 26 no. 76; Evans, PM I, fig. 46H (upside down); Schachermeyr, Die altesten Kulturen Griechenlands, pl. 15H; Sagan, PVas, 141 no. 39; Betancourt, Cretan Collection, no. 155. |
Height | 1.5 cm |
Outside Diameter | 14 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1906 |
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