Cup
MS4602L
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4602L |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
Period | Middle Minoan IA |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Technique | Handmade |
Description | Conical cup with nearly straight profile and slightly flaring lip. Medium textured, very micaceous light reddish brown (5 YR 6/3) clay, fired darker in places, covered with reddish brown (5 YR 5/4) to black slip. Handmade. Undecorated. Intact; surface eroded. Marked "B.I. 1900/?/R12LA" on one side. For the shape see The Cretan Collection, Volume I, no. 246. |
Height | 4.7 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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