Body Sherd
Strainer
MS4617.5
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4617.5 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from a waisted strainer. Fine, unevenly colored light reddish brown (5 YR 6/5) clay with a pink surface, with decoration in unevenly colored brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Running spirals and other designs. Comments: LM I. Marked "ghem B," in Greek. From Deposit B. For the shape compare MS4617.3, but this example has a straight profile at the waist. |
| Height | 3.7 cm |
| Length | 7.1 cm |
| Width | 0.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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