Bowl

Globular pyxis with rounded bottom ("bean pot"); low neck; two lug-handles pierced vertically with two holes each. Fine, light red (2.5YR 6/6) clay, covered with red (2.5YR 4/6) slip. Burnished. Undecorated. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. The context of this piece, a small rock shelter near the houses excavated by the Gournia expedition, was described by Harriet A. Boyd (1904-05 b: 182-183). Compare Boyd 1904-05 b: 181, fig. 1, no. GI f (Sphonungaras). In the Mesara this shape is rarely found after EM IIA, and it probably occurs this early in eastern Crete as well (Branigan 1970: 62). Bibliography: Body 1904-05 b: 183, object b; Silverman 1978 a: 17, no. 3.