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Bronze basin

Χ844 + Χ1082

Metal (Bronze)

Intact

Height: 8.5 cm. Mouth diameter: 32.5 cm.

Knossos

North-West Treasure House

Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Late Minoan ΙB period.:

1500-1450 BC:

Gallery:

Case:

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

Bronze basin with relief decoration of lily-like flowers on the rim and handle. To make vessels of this type, the bronzesmiths cast bronze sheets up to 2.5 mm thick and hammered them with stone hammers of different sizes. The rim of this vessel has been hammered outwards, while a second sheet of bronze has been attached on top of it as a covering. The handle is secured by four rivets. The basin is part of an assemblage of metal vessels from the Northwest Treasure House, an upper-class residence on the periphery of the Knossian palace, which was used during the Neopalatial period (1600-1450 BC).

Bibliography:

Evans, A. "The Palace of Knossos: Provisional Report for the Year 1903." The Annual of the British School at Athens 9 (1902): 123-125, figs. 77, 80. Matth?us, H. Die Bronzegef?sse der kretisch-mykenischen Kultur. Munich, 1980. Clarke, C.F. “Minoan metal vessel manufacture: reconstructing techniques and technology with experimental archaeology.” In R.B. Scott, D. Braekmans, M. Carremans, P. Degryse (eds), Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium for Archaeometry. Leuven, 2014, 81-85.

Author:

G. F.

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