Body Sherd
MS4617.10
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4617.10 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan II |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from a closed vessel. Fine, pinkish white (7.5 YR 8/2) clay, with black paint over selected areas, with decoration in added red and added white paint. Wiped with water but not burnished. Added red: dot within a reserved rectangular space. Added white: tendrils. Surface eroded. Comments: MM II. Marked "ghem B", in Greek. From Deposit B. Kamares Ware, probably not local. |
| Height | 3.9 cm |
| Length | 4.3 cm |
| Width | 0.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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