Sherd
MS4637.8
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.8 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Rim-sherd from a straight-sided cup. Fine, pinkish gray (7.5YR 7-8/2) clay, with decoration in black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Grass or reed (FM 16). See vol. I, no. 47. A very common motif, discussed by Furumark 1941: Motif 16, and Niemeier 1980: 27-28. |
| Height | 7.6 cm |
| Length | 5.3 cm |
| Width | 0.35 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 14 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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