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Marine Style cup

Π27238
Clay
Intact, mended and restored.
Height: 7 cm. Base diameter: 3.5 cm. Rim diameter: 7.7 cm.
Archanes
Tourkogeitonia - Palatial Building
Late Bronze Age, Neopalatial period, Late Minoan IB 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 Marine Style of the Special Palatial Tradition in black on buff slip: bands on the lower body, and scale pattern interspersed with sponge motifs higher up. It was found in the Late Minoan IB final destruction layer of the palatial building at Archanes.
Bibliography:
Sakellarakis, Y. and Ε. Sakellaraki. "Ανασκαφή Αρχανών", Πρακτικά της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας του έτους 1980 (1982): 354-401. Sapouna-Sakellaraki, Ε. "Η κεραμεική θαλάσσιου ρυθμού από τις Αρχάνες και η πιθανή ύπαρξη ενός τοπικού εργαστηρίου". Κρητικά Χρονικά 28-29 (1988-9): 28-52. 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 right).
Author:
P. S.


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