Body Sherd
MS4700.6
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4700.6 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from a closed vessel. Fine, light reddish brown (2.5 YR 6/4) clay, covered on exterior with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Wheelmade (?). Interior unpainted. Added white: floral motif above band. Although the light-on-dark technique is conservative, the organic quality of the decoration dates the sherd to LM I rather than earlier. It is possible the sherd is from a jar decorated in dark-on-light with added white paint on some of the dark areas, like MS4700.8 and MS4700.14. |
| Height | 4 cm |
| Length | 7.1 cm |
| Width | 0.55 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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