Body Sherd

MS4615.38

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4615.38
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Locus N Trench
Period Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan IB
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Handmade
Description

Body-sherd from a handmade vessel or larnax. Medium textured, unevenly colored dark gray clay, with light and dark inclusions, with decoration in dark paint. Surface smoothed. Almost straight walls. Drip and large blot. Comments: Comments: MM III- LM IB (?). Probably a trickle design.

Height 6.2 cm
Length 8.5 cm
Width 0.7 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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