Body Sherd
MS4628.17
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4628.17 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Locus | Deposit A |
| Period | Middle Minoan II |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from a closed vessel. Medium textured, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) clay with light and dark inclusions, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Added white: flower or rosette with alternating outlined and solid petals. From Deposit A (for discussion of the deposit see Silverman 1978 a: 162-163; Soles 1979 a: 152, mostly dated MM I-III). The mature style of the rosette suggests MM IIB (Walberg 1976: Motif 10). Bibliography: Silverman 1978 a: 37, no. 75, andpl. 2b, no. 14. |
| Height | 5.01 cm |
| Length | 5.8 cm |
| Width | 0.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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