Pithos

Sherd

MS4698.17

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4698.17
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Locus House of the Carpenter
Period Middle Minoan IB | Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan Period
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Handmade
Description

Body sherd from a pithos; short neck with rounded, thickened rim, slightly everted; molding at top of shoulder; molding at base; four vertical handles on upper shoulder. Coarse, red (2.5 YR 4-5/6) clay with light and dark inclusions. Wiped with water. Handmade. Trickle ornament. Comments: MM IB-III. Compare Hawes et al. 1908: pl.1, no. 29 (Gournia).

Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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