Body Sherd
MS4615.42
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4615.42 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Locus | N Trench |
| Period | Early Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | White-on-Dark Ware |
| Description | Body-sherd from a cup or some other open vessel. Fine, very pale brown (10 YR 7/4) clay, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Added white: lines (motifs not fully preserved, possibly a circle motif with multiple connecting lines). East Cretan White-on-dark Ware. For isolated circle motifs in this ware see the discussion of Betancourt 1984 c: 32, Motif 10, and the examples pictured in fig. 3-7. |
| Height | 2.15 cm |
| Length | 2.1 cm |
| Width | 0.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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