Sherds

Object Number

SMP18070

Name

Sherds

Description

Fragments of pottery vessels

wheel-made. Mostly fine fabrics. All are body sherds

profile thickness ranging from c. 0.5 to 1.4cm

fine/smaller vessels probably open shapes (e.g. cup

skyphos)

larger vessels perhaps more closed. Two fragments are part of narrow neck shape (e.g. hydria). Almost all sherds are decorated with horizontal stripes painted in slip

varying in thickness and quantity (one of the neck pieces rather seems to be decorated with a curved band ornament

e.g. wave or moustache). Some sherds may have been treated with a light (whiteish) foundation slip. Slip colour of decorations ranging from dark (almost black) to brown and red (result of firing atmosphere). Both light-ground and dark-ground decorations (i.e. dark lines painted on light ground vs. lines resulting from dark paint as background).

Specimen Count

43

Preservation State

Fragment

Collection Date From

1959

Department

Knossos

Collection

Stratigraphical Museum

Other IDs

SMP19056

EMu IRN

161051