Rim Sherd
MS4637.6
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.6 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Rim-sherd from a jug or jar. Fine, pinkish gray (7.5YR 7-8/2) clay with a darker core, with decoration in black paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Band on rim, inside and out. Frieze of joined rosette spirals. Added white: thin band on outside of rim. Comments: LM IA. For this motif at Gournia see Hawes et al. 1908: pl. 7, nos. 26 and 32. For discussion see Niemeier 1980: 32-34. |
| Height | 4.4 cm |
| Length | 6.7 cm |
| Width | 0.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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