Askos
MS4165A
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4165A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Locus | G56 |
| Period | Late Minoan I | Middle Minoan I |
| Date Made | 2000-1800 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Askos with closed top and small handle. Fine, unevenly colored pink to gray clay. Wiped with water and burnished. Undecorated. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. Burned. The shape develops in the latter part of the MM period and persists until LMIII. For the same shape from Gournia see Hawes et al. 1908: pl.2, no.38. See also Bosanquet 1901-1902: 284, fig.3 (Palaikastro); Dawkins 1903: 257, fig.31 (Kato Zakros); Bosanquet and Dawkins 1923: fig.45 (Palaikastro); Doumas 1976: fig.27, center (Akrotiri). |
| Height | 5.45 cm |
| Length | 6.8 cm |
| Width | 0.39 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 4.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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