Rhyton

MS5771

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5771
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Locus B11
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Conical rhyton with high handle and clay rivet at juncture of handle and rim; flat rim; clay groove 1.5 cm. below rim; vertical paring marks on lower part of body. Fine, pink (7.5YR 8/4) clay with decoration in dark reddish brown to black paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Inside of mouth painted; rim painted; series of friezes: joined running spirals; foliate band; joined running spirals; probably others, no longer preserved; handle painted. Added white: dots on rim; tiny dots on spirals and centers of spirals; traces elsewhere. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing; surface eroded. Comments: LM I. From B 11. See 670 [MS4124]. Bibliography: Silverman 1978 a: 86-87 and 107, no. 246, and pl. 20b.

Height 35.5 cm
Outside Diameter 11.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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