Base Sherd
| Object Number: | MS4637.29 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Minoan |
| Provenience: | Greece Crete Gournia |
| Period: | Middle Minoan III Late Minoan IB |
| Section: | Mediterranean |
| Materials: | Ceramic |
| Height: | 7.7 cm |
| Length: | 6.8 cm |
| Width: | 0.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 4.8 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
Description
Base-sherd from a closed vessel. Fine, gray to light brown (7.5 YR 6/4) clay, with decoration in dark paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Tortoise-shell ripple on lower body. Comments: MMIII-LM IB. Burned. For Ripple Ware see vol. I, no. 24.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Classical Gallery: Aegean/Cretan (1975 - 2000) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Collection] Silverman, Jean S., and Betancourt, Philip P. 1991. Pottery from Gournia:The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, The University of Pennsylvania.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 46, no. 539, pl. 14, fig. 17 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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