Base Sherd

MS4628.8

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4628.8
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Locus House B; Room 27
Period Middle Minoan IB | Middle Minoan II
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Base-sherd from a closed vessel, or edge from a lid. Fine, light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) clay, coverd with black paint with decoration in added white paint. Dark painted on sides and bottom of base (?). Added white: band on side; radiating design on bottom of base (?). Marked "B 27" and "L 5." From House B, Room 27. Bibliography: Silverman 1978 a: 36, no. 74, and pl. 2b, no. 15.

Height 1 cm
Length 4.9 cm
Thickness 0.4 cm
Outside Diameter 8 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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