Body Sherd

MS4637.69A

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.69A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

[Along with MS 4637.77] Three non-joining body-sherds from a large closed vessel. Medium textured, unevenly colored light brownish gray (10YR 5/2) to light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) clay with a very pale brown surface, with light and dark inclusions, with decoration in red to black painte and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Conglomerate design (FM 76) between bands, with plants below. Added white: row of dots flanked by thin bands on the lower dark bands near the conglomerate; thin bands on the other dark bands. Surface eroded. Interior coated with plaster. For the conglomerate motif see 734 [MS4617.7]; for the plants see 707 [MS4637.55].

Height 5.4 cm
Length 9.3 cm
Width 0.9 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904
Other Number 733 (P. Betancourt's 1991 publication) - Other Number

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