Body Sherd
MS4637.101
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.101 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IB | Late Minoan II |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from the shoulder of a closed vessel (alabastron?). Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in reddish brown to dark brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior unpainted. Band; undulating line with dots; zone of vertical lines between bands. For the lines used as a frieze compare 697 [MS4634] (with LM I floral designs). For the carelessly painted wavy lines and dots see 748 [MS4637.100] and Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 8, no. 23 (Gournia). |
| Height | 6.9 cm |
| Length | 4.3 cm |
| Width | 0.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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