Base Sherd

MS4637.38

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.38
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Base-sherd from a stemmed cup like MS4169, with a hole in the base. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in dark (poorly preserved) paint. Wiped with water (and burnished?). Bottom of vessel painted. Comments: LM IB. Marked "ghem B", in Greek. From Deposit B. For the shape see MS4169.

Height 2.9 cm
Length 3.5 cm
Width 0.3 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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