Plaque with relief sphinxes

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Π15121

Clay

Mended and restored.

Height: 27.7 cm. Width: 21 cm.

Kannia

Villa

Late Bronze Age. Postpalatial period, Late Minoan ΙΙΙI period.:

1300 - 1200 BC:

Gallery:

XI

Case:

116

Exhibition thematic unit:

Late Bronze Age - Postpalatial period (1300-1100 BC). Settlements. Sanctuaries. Tombs

Communal shrines

Bibliography:

Alexiou, S. "Μητρόπολις Γόρτυνος." Το Έργον της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας (1957): 92-94. Gesell, G. C. "The Function of the Plaque in the Shrine of the Goddess witn Up-Raised Hands." In R. Laffineur and R. H?gg (eds), Potnia. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age. Aegaeum 22. Li?ge and Austin, 2001, 263-268. Levi, D. "La Villa Rurale Minoica di Gortina." Bolletino d' Arte 44 (1959): 237-265, fig. 19.

Author:

E. S.


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