Imported Egyptian vessel (hydria-rhyton)



Imported Egyptian vessel (hydria-rhyton)

Λ2403
Stone (Τravertine or "Egyptian Alabaster")
Incomplete, restored.
Height: 17.5 cm. Base diameter: 4.5 cm.
Knossos
Tomb near temple-Tomb
Late Bronze Age. Final Palatial period, Late Minoan ΙΙ-ΙΙΙΑ2 period.:
1450-1375 BC:
Gallery:
X
Case:
100
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC) - Final Palatial period (1450-1300 BC).The cemeteries
The cemeteries of Knossos
Description
Imported Egyptian vase of the 18th Dynasty (16th-14th c.) in the form of an alabaster hydria. Found in the Minoan Cemetery of Knossos. Originally an Egyptian imitation of a Syro-Palestinian type, it was subsequently converted into a rhyton by drilling a hole in its base. Converting Egyptian vases into vessels more in keeping with Minoan aesthetics, changing their function, was a common practice.
Bibliography:
Hutchinson, R.W. "A Late Minoan Tomb at Knossos." Annual of the British School at Athens 51 (1956): 68-73. Phillips, J. Aegyptiaca on the island of Crete in their chronological context: A critical review, Volume II, Vienna, 2008, 147-148, no. 281.
Author:
K. T.


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