Body Sherd

MS4637.48

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.48
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan IA
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from the shoulder of a closed vessel. Fine, light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/5) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in dark brown to black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior unpainted. Rosette-spiral and floral motif. Comments: LM IA. For the rosette see 731 [MS4637.78].

Height 5.5 cm
Length 5.9 cm
Width 0.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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