Rim Sherd
Cup
MS4615.6
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4615.6 |
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 | Rim-sherd from a rounded cup. Fine, light yellowish brown (10 YR 6/4) clay, darker at core, with paler surface, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Dark paint on rim and exterior. Added: (running?) spirals at rim, above two bands. East Cretan White-on-dark Ware. Compare Hall 1904-05: pl. 27, nos. 17-19 (Gournia); Seager 1912: fig. 49, no. M 60 (Mochlos); Fairbanks 1928: no. 29 (Mochlos). For spirals in this ware see Betancourt 1984 c: 32, Motif 8. |
Height | 3.5 cm |
Length | 3.7 cm |
Width | 0.3 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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