Body Sherd

Jar (uncertain)

MS4617.25

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4617.25
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan IB
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Body-sherd from a jar (?). Medium textured, reddish yellow (5-7.5 YR 7/6) clay with light and dark inclusions, with decoration in unevenly colored black paint. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Trick ornament. Surfaced eroded. Comments: Probably MM III-LM IB. Marked "ghem B," in Greek. From Deposit B.

Height 8.1 cm
Length 7.7 cm
Width 0.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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