Sherd
MS4700.8
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4700.8 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
Period | Late Minoan I |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Ceramic |
Technique | Handmade |
Description | Several non-joining body-sherds from a jar, probably a cylindrical jar. Medium to coarse textured, unevenly colored light red to reddish brown clay with light and dark inclusions, slipped on exterior with pink (7.5 YR 8/4) slip, with decoration in red to black paint and added white paint. Handmade: Bands; waves; net pattern; other motifs, incompletely preserved. Added white: friezes of dots, between bands; leaf-like tendrils, on dark paint. Surface eroded. Compare Hawes et al. 1908: 43, fig. 23, no. 4 (Gournia); for the scale pattern with waves see pl. 9, no. 17. |
Height | 7.4 cm |
Length | 8.1 cm |
Width | 1.1 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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