Rim Sherd

MS4637.26

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.26
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Rim-sherd from a cup with convex profile. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in red paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Tortoise-shell ripple between bands. A common type. For Ripple Ware see. I, no. 24.

Height 5.2 cm
Length 7.8 cm
Width 0.4 cm
Outside Diameter 11.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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