Body Sherd
Strainer
MS4617.3
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4617.3 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from a waisted strainer; ridge at juncture of upper and lower sections. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay, with a pink surface (slip?), with decoration in unevenly colored brown reddish paint. Burnished. Band at junction of upper and lower part; foliate band (FM 64) below. Comments: LM I. Marked "ghem B" in Greek. From Deposit B. A common shape in Crete and in areas under Minoan influence. Compare (among others) Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 8, no. 15 (Gournia); Sackett and Popham 1970: fig. 15, nos. 44, 56, and 57 (Palaikastro); Doumas 1976: fig. 50, right (Akrotiri). |
| Height | 4.1 cm |
| Length | 6.5 cm |
| Width | 0.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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