Rim Sherd
Cup
MS4617.2
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4617.2 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan I | Middle Minoan II | Middle Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Rim-sherd from a conical or straight-sided cup. Fine, pink (10 YR 8/3) clay, with decoration in black paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Band on interior of rim. Pendent concentric semicircles at rim, above bands. Comments: MM I-III. Marked "ghem B," in Greek. From Deposit B. Middle Minoan Dark-on-light Style. The quality of the dark paint suggest the MM date. The motif is common in MM IB-II in eastern Crete. For the style see MS4638.1. |
| Height | 5.9 cm |
| Length | 3.3 cm |
| Width | 0.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 13 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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