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MS4615.27
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4615.27 |
| 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 | Similar to MS4615.2 but fabric yellowish red (5 YR 5/8) with a paler surface. Added white: band on top of rim; crosshatched diagonal area. East Cretan White-on-dark Ware. Compare Hall 1904-05: pl. 29, no. 10 (Gournia). This motif was probably part of a connecting line like Bosanquet and Dawkins 1923: pl. 3i (Palaikastro). |
| Height | 4.2 cm |
| Length | 6.5 cm |
| Width | 0.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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