Bowl

MS4221

From: Greece | Crete | Sphoungaras

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4221
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 sets of two lug-handles. Fabric: Medium textured, reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) clay with decoration in light to dark (poorly preserved) paint. Decoration: Paint only survives in traces, but surface was probably mottled (Vasilike ware). Bottom of base painted. Condition: Restored from fragments. Some sherds missing. Surface very erroded.

Height 4.2 cm
Outside Diameter 27.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1910

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