Rim Sherd

MS4637.94

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4637.94
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan IB
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

[Along with MS4637.108] Two non-joining rim-sherds from one or two open vessels, probably from a single stemmed cup like 579 [MS4169]. Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in dark brown to black paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Band on inside of rim; painted in lower part of interior. Band on rim; double axe with solid dot as finial, above band. Added white: band on rim. Surface eroded. See 579 [MS4169].

Height 4 cm
Length 6.8 cm
Width 0.5 cm
Outside Diameter 14 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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