Rhyton
MS4646
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4646 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Locus | A13 |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Conical rhyton, with base more painted than usual; vertical paring marks on lower body. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in red to brown to black paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Series of friezes, separated by bands: two foliate bands and grass or reed. Added white: traces on some of the dark bands. Lower part preserved. |
| Height | 31.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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