Base Sherd
Jar
MS4121
From: Greece | Crete | Gournia
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS4121 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Minoan |
| Provenience | Greece | Crete | Gournia |
| Period | Late Minoan I | Middle Minoan III |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Base from a piriform jar with molded base. Coarse light, yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) clay with a paler surface, with decoration in red to black paint. Wiped with water. Bands and frieze of grass or reed (FM16); base painted; bottom of base unpainted. From a piriform jar like 4137. See vol. I, no. 54 (Pseira). |
| Height | 15.4 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 18.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904 |
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