Heraklion Archaeological Museum - CollectiveAccess System : Clay objects : Alternating Style cup [Π27224]

Alternating Style cup

Π27224

Clay

Intact, mended and restored.

Height: 8.2 cm. Base diameter: 4.8 cm. Maximum rim diameter: 13.2 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

Semiglobular drinking vessel with a simple base, oval, everted, spouted rim, and vertical cylindrical handle. Black monochrome interior and handle. The exterior is decorated with motifs of the Alternating Style of the Special Palatial Tradition in black paint on buff slip: bands on the lower body, waz-lilies and sea anemones in the middle zone, and a horizontal dotted line under the rim. Waz-lilies, a combination of lily and papyrus, were probably used in Minoan iconography as a symbol of authority and ritual. The vessel was found in the Late Minoan IB final destruction layer of the palatial building at Archanes.

Bibliography:

Sakellarakis, Y. and Ε. Sapouna-Sakellaraki. Αρχάνες. Μια Νέα Ματιά στη Μινωική Κρήτη, Vol. II (Greek edition). Athens, 1997: 436, 438 (fig. 416, right), 440. Evans, A.J. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, Vol. II. London, 1928: 473. Kristiansen, Kr. and Th. B. Larsson. The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations. Cambridge, 2005: 84-86. Marinatos, N. Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess: A Near Eastern Koine. Illinois, 2010: 120-122.

Author:

P. S.

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