Rhyton

MS4704.3A

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4704.3A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Conical ryton with high handle; flat, outturned rim, more pronounced than MS5771. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay with a darker core, with the exterior pinkish white (7.5 YR 8/2) with decoration in red to reddish brown paint, added red paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Painted on inside of mouth: solid semicircles on top of rim; joining running spirals with solid centers below rim; crosshatching on lower part of handle. Added red: painted solid on upper part of handle. Added white: thin bands on dark bands; tiny dots on centers of spirals. Upper part preserved. See MS4124. Compare Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 7, nos. 25 and 32 (Gournia).

Height 4.2 cm
Length 9 cm
Width 0.7 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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