Body Sherd
MS4637.40A
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.40A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Two non-joining body-sherds from an "in-and-out bowl." Fine, reddish brown (2.5 YR 5/4) clay with a gray core and a paler surface, with decoration in dark brown to black paint. Wiped with water or slipped and burnished. Crocus sprays with buds and flowers or interior. Tortoise-shell ripple. For the "in-and-out bowl" see vol. I, no. 23. For Ripple Ware see vol. I, no. 24. |
| Height | 5.2 cm |
| Length | 4.1 cm |
| Width | 0.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
| Other Number | 548 (P. Betancourt's 1991 publication) - Other Number |
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