Base Sherd
MS4628.8
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4628.8 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Locus | House B; Room 27 |
| Period | Middle Minoan IB | Middle Minoan II |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Base-sherd from a closed vessel, or edge from a lid. Fine, light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) clay, coverd with black paint with decoration in added white paint. Dark painted on sides and bottom of base (?). Added white: band on side; radiating design on bottom of base (?). Marked "B 27" and "L 5." From House B, Room 27. Bibliography: Silverman 1978 a: 36, no. 74, and pl. 2b, no. 15. |
| Height | 1 cm |
| Length | 4.9 cm |
| Thickness | 0.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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