Rim Sherd
MS4637.106
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.106 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Middle Minoan III | Late Minoan IB |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Rim-sherd from a cup with a convex profile ("bell cup"). Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay with a darker core and a paler surface, with decoration in dark brown paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Interior painted. Band on rim; tortoise-shell ripple, above bands. Comments: MM III-LM IB. Ripple Ware. See The Cretan Collection: vol. I, no. 24. |
| Height | 4.7 cm |
| Length | 3.1 cm |
| Width | 0.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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