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Clay cooking grill
Clay cooking grill

Clay cooking grill

Π33319
Clay
Incomplete, mended and restored
Height: 10 cm. Length: 36 cm. Width: 17 cm.
Palaikastro
π 14
Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Late Minoan ΙΙ (?):
1450-1400 BC:
Gallery:
VI
Case:
54
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC). Private and public life. Bread and circuses
Daily life - Diet
Description
This unusual object has been interpreted, due to its shape, as a grill for cooking food over an open fire. Another piece of a grill from Palaikastro also has a handle. These utensils are rare in archaeological assemblages or are not recognised in the pottery due to their fragmentary state of preservation. The examples which can be reconstructed provide a representative picture of the variety of domestic utensils used by the Minoans for food preparation. Food might be boiled in various types of cooking pot or roasted in low clay hearths, but it was definitely also grilled, as evidenced by grills of this type and spit supports, long pottery holders for small spits.
Bibliography:
Bosanquet, R.C. and R.M. Dawkins. The Unpublished Objects from the Palaikastro Excavations: 1902-1906. The British School at Athens. Supplementary Papers 1. London, 1923, 72-73, fig. 58c. Hemingway, S., MacGillivray, A. and L.H. Sackett. "The LMI B renaissance at postdiluvian Pre-Mycenaean Palaikastro." In T.M. Brogan and E. Hallager (eds), LM IB pottery, relative chronology and regional differences. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens Volume 11,2. Athens, 2011, 526, fig.10a-b.
Author:
I. N.


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