Tripod Bowl

MS4100

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4100
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Period Middle Minoan II | Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

437 (P. Betancourt's 1991 publication) Bowl with flat bottom and concave sides, with one vertical handle; three legs with thick oval sections. Coarse, red (10R 4/6) clay. Wiped with water. Undecorated. Restored from fragments; Some sherds missing. Compare Hawes et al. 1908: pl.2, no. 47 (Gournia); Dawkins 1902-1903: 324, fig. 24, no. 2 (Palaikastro); Xanthoudides 1906: pl. 9, no. 14 (Chamaize); van Effenterre 1948: pl. 1 fig. 0-37 (Mallia); Enfenterre and Enfenterre et al. 1963: pl. 28 (Mallia); Daux 1968; fig. 5, no. 1132 (Mallia). The shape is discussed by Walberg 1983: Shape 274

Height 16.3 cm
Outside Diameter 19.8 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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