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Alternating Style cup

Π27234
Clay
Intact, mended and restored.
Height: 6.8 cm. Base diameter: 4 cm. Rim diameter: 7.7 cm.
Archanes
Tourkogeitonia - Palatial Building
Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Late Minoan ΙB period.:
1500-1450 BC:
Gallery:
IV
Case:
42
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
Bell cup with disc base, low foot, straight rim and vertical strap handle. Black monochrome interior and outside of handle. The exterior is decorated with motifs of the Alternating Style of the Special Palatial Tradition in black paint on buff slip: a band on the lower body, stylised rocks, double axes and sea anemones higher up, and hanging semicircles under the rim. It 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 (fig. 411, second in top row), 443 (fig. 423 left).
Author:
P. S.


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