Kernos
MS4546
From: Greece | Crete | Vasiliki
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4546 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Vasiliki |
| Period | Early Minoan III | Middle Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Serpentine |
| Description | Shape: Elliptical block with two cups in upper surface. Two pierced holes are between upper surface and sides. The insides of the two mouths are clearly bevelled to receive lids. Decoration consisting of incised ladder-motifs forms two v's on upper surface; two siets of two incised lines with bands of hatched semicircles are around body, with zone of drilled depressions between the bands of semicircles. Material: Serpentine; the drilled depressions were possibly for inlay-work, now missing. Condition: Fragment missing from mouth. |
| Height | 3.8 cm |
| Width | 9.4 cm |
| Depth | 5.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); E. H. Hall, 1912 |
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