Body Sherd
Cup
MS4637.13
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.13 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from a semiglobular cup. Fine, light reddish brown (5 YR 6-7/3) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in red to brown paint, added red paint, and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Concentric crescents above bands. Added red: traces. Added white: thin bands on dark bands. See MS4637.23. |
| Height | 5.3 cm |
| Length | 5.5 cm |
| Width | 0.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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