Cup

MS4252

From: Greece | Crete | Pseira

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4252
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Pseira
Period Middle Minoan IB
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Shape: Carinated cup, with one strap handle. Fabric: Fine, pink (7.5YR 8/4) clay with dark (poorly preserved) paint and decoration in added white (poorly preserved) paint. Decoration: Painted, inside and out, including outer part of handle and outer edge of resting surface. Added white paint: single pendant semicircle on one side of cup only. Condition: Restored from fragments. Some sherds missing. Paint very erroded.

Height 4.6 cm
Outside Diameter 6.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1908

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