Body Sherd

Cup

MS4637.21

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.21
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Iconography Crocus
Description

Body-sherd from a cup. Fine, pink (5 YR 8/4) clay, with decoration in red to brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Crocus spray (FM 10). For the crocus motif see Neimeier 1980: 22-23.

Height 3.6 cm
Length 2.1 cm
Width 0.3 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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