Cup
MS4639
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4639 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Semiglobular cup; pronounced base; horizontal grooves below widest part of body. Fine, pink (5 YR 7/4) clay, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Painted in interior and exterior. Added white: running spirals between bands. Comments: MM III. The use of grooves and the low height in proportion to the diameter are characteristic of MM III and the very beginning of LM I. |
| Height | 5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 10.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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