Krater
MS4673
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4673 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IIIA | Late Minoan IIIB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Krater with broad, deep bowl on a small ring-base; ridge below the small rounded rim; two horizontal handles. Coarse, unevenly colored reddish yellow (7.5 YR 7/6) to grayer clay, with light and dark inclusions, with decration in black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Band at rim; octopus trail on handle-zone; bands on body; lower part of body painted. Restored from fragments; some sherds missing. Comments: LM IIIA: 2-IIIB. From B 36. For discussion and parallels see Silverman 1978a: 184. |
| Height | 42 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 46 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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