Rhyton
MS4124
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4124 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Locus | B11 |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Date Made | 1660-1500 BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Conical rhyton with high handle and clay rivet at juncture of handle and rim; flat, slightly outturned rim; vertical paring marks on lower part of body. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay with decoration in brown to black paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Inside of mouth painted; rim painted; series of friezes, separated by bands: dot band; joined running spirals with solid centers; dot band; joined running spirals with solid centers; dot band; foliate band; three dot bands; vertical row of dots on outside of handle. Added white: tiny dots on centers of spirals; thin bands and dots on dark bands. Restored from sherds; some fragments missing. |
| Length | 33.1 cm |
| Width | 14.4 cm |
| Depth | 11.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
| Other Number | 689 - Field No SF | ...9 - Other Number |
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