Rim Sherd
Jar
| Object Number: | MS4616A |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Minoan |
| Provenience: | Greece Crete Gournia |
| Period: | Early Minoan IIA Early Minoan III |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Ceramic |
| Height: | 7.7 cm |
| Length: | 8.8 cm |
| Thickness: | 2.8 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 29 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
Description
Rim-sherd from a jar with a flat rim; slightly convex profile; lug-handles at the rim, pierced vertically with two lug-holes each. Coarse, very pale brown (10 YR 7/3-4) clay with dark and light inclusions with decoration in streaky brown (10 YR 3/2) paint. Wiped with water. Lines on rim; band below rim; lugs painted. Comments: EM IIA-III. For painted wares in EM IIA see Warren 1972: Period I (Myrtos); for EM III see Betancourt 1985: 62.
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Collection] Silverman, Jean S., and Betancourt, Philip P. 1991. Pottery from Gournia:The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, The University of Pennsylvania.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 3-4, no. 304. pl. 1, fig. 1 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Thesis] Silverman, Jean S. 1978. The Gournia Collection in the University Museum: A Study in East Cretan Pottery. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 17, no. 2 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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