Fruit-stand with tall foot



Fruit-stand with tall foot

Π1682
Clay
Mended and restored.
Height: 24 cm.
Phaistos
Middle Bronze Age. Protopalatial period, Middle Minoan ΙI period.:
1800-1700 BC:
Gallery:
III
Case:
34
Exhibition thematic unit:
Middle Bronze Age - Protopalatial period (1900-1700 BC). The First Palaces. The emergence of palatial societies
Palaces of Knossos and Phaistos. Kamares Ware
Description
Vessel with a tall cylindrical foot set on a disc base and supporting a wide bowl. The whole surface is covered with polychrome decoration in the Kamares Style. The vessel has been identified as a lamp based on other similar objects in clay and stone. However, features such as the elaborate polychrome decoration on the interior of the bowl, the lack of a spout for the wick on the rim, and the hole in the centre of the bowl, communicating with the hollow foot, make it unlikely that the vessel was actually a lamp. It seems more probable that it was a fruit-stand.
Bibliography:
Pernier, L. Il palazzo Minoico di Fest?s. I scavi e studi della missione archeologica italiana a Creta dal 1900 al 1950: Gli strati pi? antichi e il primo palazzo. Vol. 1. Rome, 1935, pl. XXII:a.
Author:
I. N.


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