Cup

MS4233

From: Greece | Crete | Pseira

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4233
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Pseira
Period Early Minoan III
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Shape: Cup with convex profile, with one strap handle. Fabric: Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with black paint and decoration in added white (10YR 8/2) paint. Decoration: Painted, inside and out, including resting surface. Added white paint: large pendant semicircles formed by thick and two thinner lines, with horizontal zone of dots bounded by pairs of lines within the semicircles. Condition: Restored from fragments. Some sherds missing, including all of handle.

Height 5.8 cm
Outside Diameter 9.3 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1908

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