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Clay bathtub larnax with painted decoration

Π3689
Clay
Intact
Length: 118 cm. Width: 63 cm. Height: 47 cm.
Pacheia Ammos, Ierapetra
Alatsomouri
Late Bronze Age. Postpalatial period, Late Minoan ΙIIB period.:
1300-1200 BC:
Gallery:
XII
Case:
Not in case
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Postpalatial period (1300-1100 BC). The larnakes. The world of the dead
The larnakes: The world of the dead
Description
Clay bathtub larnax with painted decoration. It comes from a tomb in the Late Minoan cemetery of Alatsomouri in Pacheia Ammos, which contained two bathtub larnakes and a small number of clay vases. On one long side is a young bull and a cow suckling her newborn calf, while a stylised octopus covers the whole of the other side. The bathtub larnax type, usually with a horizontal handle in the centre of each side, is mainly found in East Crete, with very rare examples in the centre and west of the island.
Bibliography:
Hawes-Boyd H., B.E. Williams, R.B. Seager, and E.H. Hall. Gournia, Vasiliki, and Other Prehistoric Sites on the Isthmus of Hierapetra, Crete: Excavations of the Wells-Houston-Cramp Expeditions 1901, 1903, 1904. Philadelphia, 1908, 46, Pl. X.44. Kanta, A. The Late Minoan III Period in Crete. A Survey of Sites, Pottery and their Distribution. Studies In Mediterranean Archaeology 58. G?teborg, 1980, 143, fig. 56 1-2. Merousis, Ν. Ι. Οι εικονογραφικοί κύκλοι των ΥΜ ΙΙΙ λαρνάκων. Οι διαστάσεις της εικονογραφίας στα πλαίσια των ταφικών πρακτικών. PhD Diss., Thessaloniki, 2000, 171.
Author:
D. M.


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