Rim Sherd
Jar
MS4616A
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4616A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Early Minoan IIA | Early Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Rim-sherd from a jar with a flat rim; slightly convex profile; lug-handles at the rim, pierced vertically with two lug-holes each. Coarse, very pale brown (10 YR 7/3-4) clay with dark and light inclusions with decoration in streaky brown (10 YR 3/2) paint. Wiped with water. Lines on rim; band below rim; lugs painted. Comments: EM IIA-III. For painted wares in EM IIA see Warren 1972: Period I (Myrtos); for EM III see Betancourt 1985: 62. |
| Height | 7.7 cm |
| Length | 8.8 cm |
| Thickness | 2.8 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 29 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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