Bowl

MS4234

From: Greece | Crete | Vasiliki

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4234
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Vasiliki
Period Early Minoan III
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Shape: Conical cup or bowl. Fabric: Fine, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) clay with decoration in mottled light red (2.5YR 6/6) to black paint and added white (poorly preserved) paint. Decoration: Light red to black paint in bands on rim, inside and out, at base and in three vertical panels. Added white paint: two thin bands on painted band at rim; diagonal lines and cross-hatching on vertical panels. Condition: Restored from fragments. Some sherds missing. Surface very erroded.

Height 6.1 cm
Outside Diameter 8.8 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1906

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