Cup
MS4270
From: Greece | Crete | Pseira
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4270 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Pseira |
| Period | Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan IA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Shape: Straight-sided cup with slightly concave profile with one strap handle. Fabric: Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) to black paint and decoration in added white (poorly preserved) paint. Decoration: Painted, inside and out, including resting surface. Added white paint: frieze of running spirals with two bands below, on exterior. Condition: Restored from fragments. Some sherds missing. Surface very eroded. |
| Height | 5.9 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 9 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1908 |
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