Kalathos
MS4606
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4606 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan IA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Kalathos of simple conical shape wiht spreading rim; no handles. Fine pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Dark painted on interior and exterior. Added white: traces only. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing; surface eroded. Comments: MM III-LM IA. The best discussion of kalathoi is Coldstream and Huxley, eds. 1973: 86, no. 72, and no. D 27, with references (Kythera). Compare also Levi 1976: pls. 184c and 185d and f (Phaistos). |
| Height | 15.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 15 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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