| Object Number |
MS4615.40 |
| 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 conical cup similar to MS4615.12 but fabric very pale brown (10YR 7/4) with a darker core. Added white: lines (cross-hatched triangles?). East Cretan White-on-dark Ware. From a cup similar to MS4615.12. |
| Height |
3.3 cm |
| Length |
3.3 cm |
| Width |
0.3 cm |
| Credit Line |
Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
This object has never been on display.
Bibliography
| Betancourt, Philip P., and Jean S. Silverman. Pottery from Gournia:The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, The University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1991. See: p. 7, no. 318, pl. 1, fig. 2 |
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| Betancourt, Philip P. East Cretan White-on-Dark Ware: Studies on a Handmade Pottery of the Early to Middle Minoan Periods. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1984. See: p. 170, no. 18, pl. 18, pl. 6D-F |
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| Silverman, Jean S. "The Gournia Collection in the University Museum: A Study in East Cretan Pottery. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia". PhD diss., 1978. See: p. 26, no. 46, pl. 1d, no. 28 |
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