Body Sherd
MS4700.14A
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4700.14A |
| 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 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 | 15.1 cm |
| Length | 24 cm |
| Width | 0.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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