Body Sherd
MS4637.45
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.45 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan II | Middle Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd with handle from a bridge-spouted jar. Fine, pink (5YR 7/4) clay, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Painted on exterior. Added white: bands and spirals; lines on handle. A common shape; the thin handle is no earlier than MM II. |
| Height | 6.5 cm |
| Length | 5.2 cm |
| Width | 0.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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