Rim Sherd
MS4637.31
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.31 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Rim-sherd from a closed vessel. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in red to brown paint and added white paint. Slipped with pink (7.5 YR 8/4) slip and burnished. Thickened rim. Band on rim; running spirals with large centers. Added white: tiny dots on centers of spirals; thin bands on rim band. The date is based on the type of spirals. |
| Height | 5.6 cm |
| Length | 5 cm |
| Width | 0.48 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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