• Small bridge-spouted kados with Marine Style decoration



Small bridge-spouted kados with Marine Style decoration
Small bridge-spouted kados with Marine Style decoration

Small bridge-spouted kados with Marine Style decoration

Π7572
Clay
Intact, mended and restored.
Height: 18.5 cm. Rim diameter: 13.5 cm. Base diameter: 13.2 cm.
Nirou Chani
Megaron
Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Late Minoan ΙB period.:
1500-1450 BC:
Gallery:
V
Case:
45
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC). The New Palaces. The zenith of Minoan civilisation
Settlements. Central buildings. Villas of Central Crete
Description
Small bridge-spouted bucket-shaped vessel with two horizontal handles and three applied rivet heads under the spout. It is decorated with black Marine Style motifs on a buff slip: triton shells, sea anemones and coral-like branches sprouting from rocks. There are relief ridges around the base and rim. The vessel was probably used for storing, transporting and decanting liquids for religious/ritual purposes.
Bibliography:
Xanthoudides, S. "Μινωικόν Μέγαρον Νίρου", Αρχαιολογική Εφημερίς (1922): 1-25. Mountjoy, P.A. "Ritual Associations for LM I B Marine Style Vases". In P. Darcque and J.-C. Poursat (eds), L’Iconographie minoenne, Actes de la table ronde d’Ath?nes (21-22 avril 1983), Bulletin de Correspondance Hell?nique, Suppl?ment 11. Ath?nes, 1985, 231-242. Karlsruhe, Schl. and H. Siebenmorgen (eds), Im Labyrinth des Minos: Kreta - die erste europ?ische Hochkultur, Ausstellung des Badischen Landesmuseums 27.1 bis 29.4.2001, M?nchen. Biering & Brinkmann, Arch?ologische Ver?ffentlichungen des Badischen Landesmuseums 2, 2000, 295-296 (no. 236). Sakellaraki, Μ. Ο χαρακτήρας και η λειτουργία των νεοανακτορικών κτηρίων. Η περίπτωση του Νίρου Χάνι. PhD Diss., University of Athens, 2011, 24, 172.
Author:
P. S.


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