Bowl

MS4220

From: Greece | Crete | Sphoungaras

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4220
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Sphoungaras
Period Early Minoan IIB
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Shape: Shallow bowl with flat resting surface and two opposed, horizontal coil handles. Fabric: Medium textured, reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) clay with decoration in mottled brown (7.5YR 5/4) to dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) paint. Decoration: A poor version of Vasilike ware. Mottled more on the interior than the exterior. Bottom of base painted. Condition: Restored from fragments. Surface eroded.

Height 5 cm
Outside Diameter 21.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1910

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