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Alternating Style chalice

Π26795

Clay

Intact, mended and restored.

Height: 26.5 cm. Rim diameter: 18 cm. Base diameter: 8.8 cm.

Archanes

Tourkogeitonia - Palatial Building

Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Late Minoan ΙB period.:

1500-1450 BC:

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Exhibition thematic unit:

Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC). The New Palaces. The zenith of Minoan civilisation

Archanes palatial building. Palace of Zakros.

Description

Chalice (handleless conical cup) with disc base. Relief band high on the body and flat everted rim with notched inner surface. Decorated in brown on buff slip with motifs of the Alternating Style of the Special Palatial Tradition, such as lilies, sea anemones, stylised rocks, horizontal bands and chevrons. The excavator suggests that it may have been used as a flower vase. Found in the Late Minoan IB final destruction layer of the palatial building at Archanes.

Bibliography:

Sakellarakis, Y. and Sakellaraki, Ε. "Αρχάνες", Το Έργον της Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας κατά το έτος 1989 (1990): 141-147. Sakellarakis, Y. and Ε. Sapouna-Sakellaraki. Αρχάνες. Μια Νέα Ματιά στη Μινωική Κρήτη, Vol. II (Greek edition). Athens, 1997: 436 (fig. 411), 438 (fig. 414).

Author:

P. S.

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