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Bridge-spouted kados with dark-on-light decoration

Π2820
Clay
Intact, mended and restored.
Height: 27 cm. Diameter: 21.5 cm.
Gournia
Settlement
Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Late Minoan ΙB period.:
1500-1450 BC:
Gallery:
V
Case:
46
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC). The New Palaces. The zenith of Minoan civilisation
Settlements of East Crete
Description
Bridge-spouted bucket-shaved vessel with semiglobular body, two horizontal handles and three smaller vertical handles. It is decorated with black motifs on buff slip: horizontal and wavy lines, flowers, branches, dots, and bands on the handles and rim. It was probably intended for industrial use involving liquid contents, as the spout indicates.
Bibliography:
Hawes, H.Β., B.E. Williams, R.B. Seager and E.H. Hall. Gournia, Vasiliki and other Prehistoric Sites on the Isthmus of Hierapetra, Crete. Philadelphia, 1908: 44, pl. IX (no. 30). Christakis, K. Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi, Traditions and Trends in the Production and Consumption of Storage Containers in Bronze Age Crete. Philadelphia, 2005: 19, 68, 72, 82-83, pl. 1, fig. 23 (Mandalaki, S. 109).
Author:
P. S.


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