Rim Sherd
Jar
MS4615.3
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4615.3 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Locus | N Trench |
| Period | Early Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Technique | White-on-Dark Ware |
| Description | Rim sherd with spout from a bridge-spouted jar. Medium textured, brown (7.5 YR 5/2) clay with light and dark inclusions, covered with black paint, with decoration in added white paint. Dark paint on rim and exterior. Added white: groups of short vertical lines on rim; circles (or running spirals?) with multiple connecting lines. East Cretan White-on-dark Ware. Compare MS4615.2. |
| Height | 5.1 cm |
| Length | 10.6 cm |
| Width | 1.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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