Cup
MS4602L
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4602L |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan IA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Handmade |
| Description | Conical cup with nearly straight profile and slightly flaring lip. Medium textured, very micaceous light reddish brown (5 YR 6/3) clay, fired darker in places, covered with reddish brown (5 YR 5/4) to black slip. Handmade. Undecorated. Intact; surface eroded. Marked "B.I. 1900/?/R12LA" on one side. For the shape see The Cretan Collection, Volume I, no. 246. |
| Height | 4.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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