Body Sherd
MS4700.2
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4700.2 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan IA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | Handmade |
| Description | Body-sherd from a closed vessel. Medium textured, reddish brown (5 YR 5-6/3) clay with light and dark inclusions, covered with red paint, with decoration in added white paint. Handmade. Interior unpainted. Exterior painted. Added white: floral motifs, surviving only in traces. Surface eroded. The sherd is probably a fragment from a large jar with dark-on-light decoration with added white paint on some of the dark areas. |
| Height | 6 cm |
| Length | 6.7 cm |
| Width | 0.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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