Pithos
Sherd
MS4698.20
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4698.20 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Locus | House of the Carpenter |
| Period | Middle Minoan IB | Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan Period |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Handmade |
| Description | Body sherd from a pithos; short neck with rounded, thickened rim, slightly everted; molding at top of shoulder; molding at base; four vertical handles on upper shoulder. Coarse, red (2.5 YR 4-5/6) clay with light and dark inclusions. Wiped with water. Handmade. Trickle ornament. Comments: MM IB-III. Compare Hawes et al. 1908: pl.1, no. 29 (Gournia). |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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