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Clay amphora

Π30421
Clay
Mended and restored on parts of the neck and body
Height: 61 cm. Rim diameter: 11.8 cm.
Kommos
House Χ
Late Bronze Age. Final Palatial period, Late Minoan ΙΙΙΑ2 period.:
1375-1300 BC:
Gallery:
IX
Case:
94
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Final Palatial period (1450-1300 BC). The Knossos monopalatial system
Palace of Knossos - Final Palatial period
Description
Canaanite amphora from House X of Kommos, made of clay fabric from southern Canaan. It has a pointed body ending in a curved narrow base, angular shoulders, vertical handles and a short neck with relief collar. Traces of decoration of reddish-brown intersecting lines are visible. It was probably imported to the harbour of Kommos together with similar amphorae for its valuable contents, wine or resin from Syro-Palestine. The excavators argue that the contents of such vessels were transferred to smaller locally made amphorae for transport to the interior of Crete. Imports to Kommos peaked between 1375 and 1200 BC.
Bibliography:
Shaw, J.W. Kommos. Ένα μινωικό επίνειο και ελληνικό ιερό στη Νότια Κρήτη, Heraklion, 2007, 117-118. Stampolidis, Ν. and Α. Karetsou (eds), Ανατολική Μεσόγειος, Κύπρος – Δωδεκάνησα – Κρήτη, 16ος -6ος αι. π.Χ., Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης – ΥΠ.ΠΟ. – ΚΓ ΕΠΚΑ, Heraklion, 1998, p. 57, no. 3. Stampolidis, Ν. (ed.). Πλόες... Από τη Σιδώνα στη Χουέλβα. Σχέσεις των λαών της Μεσογείου, 16ος-6ος αιώνας π.Χ., Athens, 2003, p. 224, no. 1. Watrous, L.V. Kommos III. The Late Bronze Age Pottery, Princeton, 1992, 110, 160, pl. 53, fig.72.
Author:
G. F.


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