Single-handled carinated Kamares Ware cup



Single-handled carinated Kamares Ware cup

Π10085
Clay
Mended and restored.
Height: 6 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
Cups with sharply angled bodies (known as carinated cups) were particularly popular drinking vessels during the period of the Old Palaces. Their elegant shape is stressed by the polychrome decoration in the Kamares Style. The main decorative theme, a white petalled rosette, covers the whole surface of the cup opposite the vertical strap handle. A wavy band runs around the body just above the carination, heightening the aesthetic result created by the outline of the vessel. The sharp carination, the fine walls and the vertical strap handle are elements echoing metal prototypes. Carinated cups, particularly those with elaborate decoration on a dark burnished ground, may have been produced as an alternative to metal vessels.
Bibliography:
Levi, D. "Attivit? della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene nell'anno 1950." Bolletino d'Arte IV (1951): figs. 46-47. Levi, D. Fest?s e la civilt? minoica I. Incunabula Graeca 60. Roma, 1976, 365, 368, F399, pl. 131n.
Author:
I. N.


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