Cup
Rim Sherd
MS4637.118
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4637.118 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan II | Late Minoan IIIA |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Rim-sherd from a cup. Fine, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in dark reddish brown paint. Wiped with water (or slipped?), not burnished. Interior painted. Band on rim; rosette like motif above band. Comments: LM II-IIIA. The deate is based on the shape. For this motif used in isolation at Gournia see Hawes et al. 1908: 43, fig. 23, nos. 3 and 5. |
| Height | 6.8 cm |
| Length | 7.7 cm |
| Width | 0.3 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 16.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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