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Potter's wheel stand

Π33194
Clay
Intact, mended and restored.
Diameter of disc: 22 cm. Thickness of disc: 2.2 cm. Maximum height of stand: 21.2 cm.
Malia
House Θ
Middle Bronze Age. Protopalatial period, Middle Minoan ΙI period.:
1900-1800 BC:
Gallery:
II
Case:
16
Exhibition thematic unit:
Middle Bronze Age - Late Prepalatial-Protopalatial period (2200-1700 BC). From small communities to towns
Life in the settlements
Description
Stand of an early type of freely revolving potter’s wheel. It consists of a flat disc-shaped head with a central hole and an integral hollow, cylindrical vertical shaft, in which the rotating axle of the wheelhead was set. In the upper surface of the head are concentric circular incisions transected by radiating incisions. These ensured the better adherence of the raw clay used to fix the wheelhead to the support. It was used c. 1900-1800 BC, during the period of the First Minoan Palaces in Crete. The adoption of this accessory of the potter’s wheel was a watershed moment, as it systematised the production of Minoan pottery, which had hitherto been exclusively handmade.
Bibliography:
Warren, P. Myrtos: An Early Bronze Age Site in Crete. The British School at Athens Supplementary Volume 7. London, 1972, 214-15, no. 14, fig. 98, no. 14, pl. 75C (left). Evely, R.D.G. "The Potters' Wheel in Minoan Crete." The Annual of the British School at Athens 83 (1988): 83-126.
Author:
P. S.


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