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Silver bowl

Χ-Α403
Metal (Silver)
Intact
Height: 55 cm. Diameter: 14 cm.
Knossos
North-West Treasure House
Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Late Minoan ΙB period.:
1500-1450 BC:
Gallery:
VI
Case:
58
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC). Private and public life. Bread and circuses
Public life. Banquets and communal messes
Description
Silver hemispherical bowl with running spiral decoration beaten over a hard core (repouss?). It is part of a hoard of four metal vessels found in the South House, a three-storey building next to the southwest corner of the palace of Knossos. The vessels were probably stored in a wooden box in the west room of the building. They may have belonged to the cult equipment of a shrine.
Bibliography:
Mountjoy, P.A. Knossos: The South House. British School at Athens Suppl. 34. London, 2003, 163-166, fig. 6.1. Vasilakis, A. “Silver metalworking in prehistoric Crete. An historical survey.” In Ι. Tzachili (ed.), Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age, Athens, 2008, 84-85, fig. 36.
Author:
G. F.


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