Body Sherd

MS4617.4

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4617.4
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from a closed vessel. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in unevenly colored reddish brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Foliate band (FM 64) above band. Comments: LM I. Marked "ghem B", in Greek. From Deposit B. For the motif see MS4637.30.

Height 5.1 cm
Length 5.3 cm
Width 0.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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