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MS4630.3

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4630.3
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan IIIA:2
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Semiglobular cup with one vertical handle and small open spout at a right angle to the handle. Fine, pale yellow (5 Y 7/3) clay, with decoration in dark olive gray paint. Wiped with water, and possibly lightly burnished. Interior painted. Band on rim; dots below rim; frieze of isolated cross-shaped motifs composed of dots bounded by circles at the centers, groups of lines of increasing length forming theh crosses' arms, and dotted rosettes within the angles. Fragmentary. Comments: LM IIIA: 2. For the shape, a standard one in the period, see Popham 1970: fig. 16, no. I (Knossos).

Height 3.3 cm
Length 8.2 cm
Thickness 0.3 cm
Outside Diameter 14 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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