Base Sherd
Cup
MS4628.6
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4628.6 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan II |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Base-sherd from a straight-sided cup. Fine, very pale brown (10YR 7/4) clay, covered with unevenly colored dark brown to black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Painted on interior, exterior, and bottom of base. Added white: bands on lower body. A common shape. Bibliography: Silverman 1978 a: 37, no. 77, and pl. 2b, no. 16; Betancourt 1984: appendix, no. 42; Myer 1984: 62-63; Rapp and Gifford 1984. |
| Height | 3.8 cm |
| Length | 5 cm |
| Thickness | 0.2 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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