Body Sherd

Cup

MS4628.22

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4628.22
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Middle Minoan IB | Middle Minoan II
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from a carinated cup. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay, redder toward the center and gray at the core, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Painted on interior and exterior. Added white: design only partly preserved. Perhaps the decoration was a single pendant semicircle.

Height 3 cm
Length 4.1 cm
Thickness 0.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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