Goblet
MS4217
From: Greece | Crete | Sphoungaras
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4217 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Sphoungaras |
| Period | Early Minoan IIB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Shape: Cup with convex profile on stemmed base (goblet or "egg-cup"). Fabric: Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with decoration in black and mottled dark red (10YR 3/6) to black paint. Decoration: Surface similar to Vasilike ware, probably to be regarded as a sub-variety of the technique. Interior and upper part of vessel black; remainder red with a mottled black line around body. Underneath of base unpainted. Condition: Restored from fragments. Foot damaged and mostly missing. Surface slightly erroded. |
| Height | 9.7 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 13.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1910 |
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