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Clay house-shaped kernos

Π32740
Light brown clay
Mended from many sherds with minor restoration. The painted decoration is fugitive in places.
Height: 6.7 cm. Diameter: 8.2 cm.
Gortyn
Sanctuary of Athena on the Acropolis
Early Archaic period:
7th c. BC:
Gallery:
XVII
Case:
178
Exhibition thematic unit:
Geometric - Archaic - Classical period (10th - 4th c. BC). The Sanctuaries. From Minoan cult to the amalgamation of religious beliefs
Sanctuaries
Description
Circular house with central smoke-hole/chimney and almost square doorway. It forms the central part of a ritual kernos, with the roots of the three handles preserved on the shoulder/roof of the house. On the flat base are five imprints made by the lower part of the kernos. The house bears dark brown to black painted decoration on the “walls”, consisting of two wavy lines between horizontal bands and radiating lines alternating with tongue-shaped leaves on the “roof”.
Bibliography:
D. Levi, Gli scavi del 1954 sull'acropoli di Gortina, Annuario della scuola archeologica di Atene 33-34 (1955-6), 237, figs 31 and 270. W. Jοhannowsky, Il santuario sull'acropoli di Gortina, Annuario della scuola archeologica di Atene 2002, 30, no. 196, pl. 14.
Author:
K. S.


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