Cup

MS4602L

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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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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