Single-handled cylindrical cup with concave walls



Single-handled cylindrical cup with concave walls

Π5780
Clay
Intact, mended on handle.
Height: 5.3 cm. Rim diameter: 8 cm.
Phaistos
Palace, Room 11
Middle Bronze Age. Protopalatial period, Middle Minoan IIB 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
Straight-sided cups or cylindrical cups with concave sides are a popular type of drinking vessel in the mature Protopalatial and the Neopalatial period. They are often termed "Vapheio cups" due to their typological similarity to the gold cups found in Vapheio in Laconia. This cups bears polychrome Kamares Ware decoration with the characteristic “rising sun” motif, as the stylised ornament in white between red rocklike designs is conventionally termed. In contrast to the dominant tendency of Kamares Ware decoration to be arranged in complex compositions with moving, whirling motifs, the pattern on this cup is laid out in distinct horizontal zones, stressing the unified surface of the cylindrical body.
Bibliography:
Banti, L. "Cronologia e ceramica del Palazzo Minoico di Fest?s." ASAtene 17-18, 1939-40 (1942): fig. 29b. Levi, D. Fest?s e la civilt? minoica I. Incunabula Graeca 60. Roma, 1976, 365, 368, F445, tav. 126b. Betancourt, P.P. The History of Minoan Pottery. Princeton, 1985, pl. 9Θ.
Author:
I. N.


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