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Beaked eye-jug
Beaked eye-jug
Beaked eye-jug

Beaked eye-jug

Π10073
Clay
Mended and restored.
Height: 27 cm.
Phaistos
Palace, Room 11, floor
Middle Bronze Age. Protopalatial period, Middle Minoan ΙΙI period.:
1750-1700 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
This small jug for serving liquids is of a type known as an eye-jug, due to the two relief knobs under the beaked spout. The polychrome decoration on the body of the vase condenses the principles of the Kamares Style: white spiral volutes and oval orange motifs on a dark ground are arranged in a moving, swirling pattern that harmoniously unifies the whole surface of the vessel.
Bibliography:
Carinci, F.M. “Western Messara and Egypt during the Protopalatial Period: A Minimalist View“. In Karetsou, A., M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki, and N. Papadakis (eds) Κρήτη - Αίγυπτος. Πολιτισμικοί δεσμοί τριών χιλιετιών. Μελέτες, Heraklion, 2000, 35-36, fig. 1 (shell) και 2 (restoration on cylindrical pyxis). Λάθος παραπομπή
Author:
I. N.


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