Faience chalice
Υ51
Faience
Mended from many fragments.
Height: 8.3 cm. Rim diameter: 6.6 cm.
Knossos
Palace
Middle-Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Middle Minoan ΙΙΙΒ - Late Minoan ΙA period.:
1650 - 1550 BC:
Gallery:
VIIICase:
84Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC). Minoan religion. Palace cultThe Temple Repositories of the palace of Knossos
Description
Faience chalice, one of two similar cups found in the crypts of the Temple Repositories of the Central Palace Sanctuary of Knossos. It is conical with a flat base, a tall, narrow body widening at the double everted rim, and a strap handle. Just above the base is a relief band with a strong wavy line directly above it. Leafy branches spring from the tops of the “waves”. The bands and branches are rendered in low relief and picked out in black on a light ground. Another spray springs from the handle and across part of the rim. This spray has been made separately, probably in a mould, and attached to the vessel. The base and body of the vessel, the double rim and the handle have also been made separately and joined. The crypts of the Temple Repositories contained seven faience vessels which formed part of the equipment of the sanctuary and were used in ceremonies.Bibliography:
Evans, A.J. The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos. Volume I. London, 1928, 498-499, fig. 357. Foster, K.P. Aegean Faience of the Bronze Age. New Haven, 1979. Panagiotaki, M. The Central Palace Sanctuary at Knossos. British School at Athens Supplementary Volume no. 31. London, 1999, 91, 159, fig. 22:195, pl. 15:195.Author:
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