Cup

MS4245

From: Greece | Crete | Vasiliki

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4245
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Vasiliki
Period Middle Minoan IA
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Shape: Conical cup with flaring, slightly concave profile. Fabric: Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with decoration in dark red (10YR 3/6) to dusky red (10R 3/4) paint. Self-slipped. Decoration: Band on inside of rim. Bands at upper and lower part of body, with frieze of diagonal lines between them. Condition: Restored from fragments. Some sherds missing. Surface very erroded.

Height 6.1 cm
Outside Diameter 9.3 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1906

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