Rim Sherd

Cup

MS4617.1

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4617.1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan IA
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Rim-sherd from a straight-sided cup. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in reddish brown paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Band on rim, inside and out. Leaf-like tendrils. Added white: pendant concentric semicircles on band on inside of rim; thin band and vertical lines on band on outside of rim. Surface eroded. Comments: LM IA. Marked "ghem B," in Greek. From Deposit B. For the motif see MS4637-104.

Height 4.3 cm
Length 3.9 cm
Width 0.3 cm
Outside Diameter 11 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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