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Stone conical rhyton
Stone conical rhyton

Stone conical rhyton

Λ336
Stone (Veined Alabaster)
Mended and restored on parts of the rim, body, lower end and handle.
Height: 40.5 cm. Rim diameter: 11.7 cm. Pouring hole diameter: 0.08 cm.
Hagia Triada
Villa
Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Late Minoan ΙI period.:
1500 - 1450 BC:
Gallery:
VII
Case:
71
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC). Minoan religion - Domestic and open-air cult
Domestic shrines. Figurines and libation vessels
Description
Large conical limestone rhyton. The handle was not worked separately, as is the case with other rhyta, but was carved together with the body of the rhyton from the a single block of stone. Four relief rings decorate the rim. The fragments of the rhyton were found in the “Royal Apartments” in the northwest wing of the villa of Agia Triada. They had fallen to the ground floor from the second floor of the building, where the rhyton was probably stored together with other cult vessels including rhyta and chalices. Rhyta and chalices were used in ceremonies involving liquids, either offered as libations or for drinking. Similar assemblages of cult vessels have been found in the storerooms of the shrines of palaces and palatial buildings such as the villa of Agia Triada.
Bibliography:
Halbherr, F., E. Stefani, L. Banti. "Haghia Triada nel Periodo Tardo Palaziale." Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente 55 n.s. 39 (1977): 9-342, fig. 53. Koehl, R.B. Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta. Prehistory Monographs 19. Philadelphia, 2006, 163.
Author:
E. S.


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