Body Sherd
MS4617.8
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4617.8 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Early Minoan IIB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Red Burnished Ware |
| Description | Body-sherd from a closed vessel. Medium textured, unevenly colored light red (2.5 YR 6/6) clay, with light and dark inclusions, covered with red (2.5 YR 5/8) paint. Burnished. Handmade. Comments: Probably EM IIB. Red Burnished Ware. For discussion of the style see Warren 1972: Period II (Myrtos). |
| Height | 5 cm |
| Length | 5.7 cm |
| Width | 0.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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