Base Sherd
Cup
MS4637.27
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.27 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Base-sherd from a semiglobular cup. Fine, light reddish brown (2.5 YR 6-7/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in red to black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Running spirals between bands. A very common type. Compare (among others) Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 8, no. 8 (Gournia). |
| Height | 6.8 cm |
| Length | 7.5 cm |
| Width | 0.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 4.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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