Rim Sherd
Cup
MS4637.4
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.4 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Rim-sherd from a straight-sided cup. Fine, pink (5YR 7/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in red to brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Floral motif between groups of crescents. See 572 for this decoration on a semiglobular cup. Bibliography: Silverman 1978a: 119, no. 289, and pl. 12e, no. 1. |
| Height | 6.7 cm |
| Length | 5.5 cm |
| Width | 0.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 12 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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