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Vaulted Tombs of Mesara ➔ Pyxis with horn-shaped handles

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Clay
Mended and restored.
Height (with handles): 21 cm. Maximum width (with handles): 32.2 cm.
Lebena
Tomb ΙΙ, Yerokambos
Early Bronze Age. Prepalatial period, Early Minoan I period.:
3100 - 2700 BC:
Gallery:
I
Case:
8
Exhibition thematic unit:
Early Bronze Age - Prepalatial period (3000 - 1900 BC). Settlements and cemeteries - the rise of ruling groups
For the dead. From personal event to communal practices
Description
A unique vessel among the pottery of the Lebena cemetery, standing out for both its size and its shape. It appears to have been among the vessels accompanying one of the first burials in Tholos Tomb II at Yerokambos. Its specialness may be connected to the social status and prestige of the people who first used the tomb. The holes in the base of the large hornlike handles were used to tie the lid to the body of the pyxis. The early Minoan I period in the Mesara is characterised by a plethora of strangely shaped vessels, most of them from tombs.
Bibliography:
Alexiou, S. "New Light on Minoan Dating: Early Minoan Tombs at Lebena." The Illustrated London News 237, 6 August 1960: 225-227, fig. 10. Alexiou, S. and P. Warren. The Early Minoan Tombs of Lebena, Southern Crete. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology Vol. XXX. S?vedalen, 2004, 92, fig. 26:298, pl. 70A, Β.
Author:
E. S.


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