Cup
MS4605D
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4605D |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan IA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Bell cup; one handle. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 8/4) clay with decoration in black paint. Wiped with water. Band on rim and upper part of handle with a few drips, from dipping. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. Comments: MM III-LM IA. Middle Minoan Dark-on-light Style. For the shape see Wahlberg 1983: Type 223. Compare Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 2, no. 16, with no paint (Gournia). For this type of painting in eastern Crete in LM I see Sackett and Popham 1970: 222, fig. 13, no. 8, and pl. 614 (Palaikastro). |
| Height | 7.2 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 9 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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