Body Sherd

MS4615.41

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4615.41
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Locus N Trench
Period Early Minoan III
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique White-on-Dark Ware
Description

Body-sherd from a jug (?). Fine, brown (7.5 YR 3-4/2) clay, darker at the core, covered with very dark brown paint, with decoration in added white paint. Added white: diagonal line above the two bands. East Cretan White-on-dark Ware. For jugs in this ware see Hall 1904-05: pl. 31, nos. 2, 4, and 8 (Gournia).

Height 3.75 cm
Length 4.6 cm
Width 0.4 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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