Rim Sherd
Cup
MS4637.2
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.2 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Rim-sherd from a straight-sidded cup. Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/3) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in red to brown paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Frieze of leaf-like tendrils, between bands. Added white: pendent concentric semicircles at rim, on interior; band on dark band at rim. For the motif see vol. I, no. 30, and Niemeier 1980: 34-36. Bibliography: Possibly Luce 1921: 26, no. 83; Silverman 1978 a: 118, no. 286, and pl. 14d, no. 4. |
| Height | 7.2 cm |
| Length | 10 cm |
| Width | 0.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 11.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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