Jar
MS4607
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4607 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Tall alabstron. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 8/2-4) clay, covered with dark brown paint. Wiped with water before painting. No added white preserved. Intact: surface eroded. A common type, but usually decorated. For the survival of dark-painted vases into LM IB contexts in eastern Crete see Betancourt and Davaras 1986: fig. 15, no. PS 79 (Pseira). |
| Height | 7.9 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 6.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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