Body Sherd
MS4637.53
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.53 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from the neck and shoulder of a closed vessel, with a clay ridge at the juncture of the two parts; probably a jug. Fine, pink (5YR 7/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in brown to black paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior unpainted. Foliate band (FM 64) below band. Added white: dots and thin bands on the dark band. For the motif see 566 [MS4637.30]. |
| Height | 6 cm |
| Length | 5.3 cm |
| Width | 0.375 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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