Body Sherd
MS4700.9
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4700.9 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Body-sherd from a closed vessel. Fine, very pale brown (10 YR 7/3) clay with a redder core, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Handmade (?). Painted on exterior. Added white: friexe of running spirals with waves, between bands. The solid white undulating areas are a late MM to early LM I feature. The design is extremely common in MM III, especially in central and eastern Crete. |
| Height | 8.2 cm |
| Length | 8.2 cm |
| Width | 0.8 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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