Base Sherd
MS4637.47
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4637.47 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
Period | Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan IB |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Base-sherd from a closed vessel. Fine, pink (5YR 6-7/3-4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in dark reddish brown to black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior unpainted. Tortoise-shell ripple above band at base; outer edge of bottom of base painted. Comments: MM III-LM IB. For Ripple Ware see vol. I, no. 24. |
Height | 4.1 cm |
Length | 6.4 cm |
Width | 0.5 cm |
Outside Diameter | 8 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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