Pot Stand

MS4661

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4661
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Upper part or lower part of a cylindrical stand with three vertical openings, equally spaced. Coarse, unevenly colored reddish brown (5 YR 5/4) to gray clay with light and dark inclusions. Wiped wtih water. Handmade. Undecorated. Restored from fragments; lower (or upper) part of stand missing. Domestic stands are discussed by Betancourt et al. 1983. Compare Bosanquet and Dawkins 1902-03: 282, fig. 3, no. 24 (Palaikastro).

Height 22.3 cm
Outside Diameter 15.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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