Rim Sherd
Cup
MS4637.3
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.3 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IB | Late Minoan IIIA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Rim-sherd from a conical cup with a pronounced base. Fine, light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in dark brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Diagonal foliate band and isolated spiral, between bands. Comments: LM IB-IIIA. The base is unusual, and the isolated spiral within an open field may indicate a LM IIIA date. Bibliography: Possibly Luce 1921: 26, no. 83; Silverman 1978 a: 118, no. 288, fig. 5, no. 7, and pl. 13d, no. 3. |
| Height | 5.9 cm |
| Length | 6.2 cm |
| Width | 0.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 12 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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