Rim Sherd
Jar
MS4637.63
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.63 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Locus | Deposit A |
| Period | Late Minoan IA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Rim-sherd from a large piriform jar. Medium textured, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with a darker core and a plaer surface, with light and dark inclusions, with decoration in red to black paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Handmade. Concentric crescents alternating with crocus on the top of the rim. Band on outside of rim. Added white: foliate band on neck, flanked by bands. Surface eroded. Marked "ghem A," in Greek. From Deposit A. For the deposit see Soles 1979 a: 152. for the motif see 572 [MS4637.23]. For the shape see 622 [MS4720]. |
| Height | 6.3 cm |
| Length | 12.5 cm |
| Width | 1 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 28.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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