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Faience bowl with relief floral decoration

Υ596

Faience

Mended from many small fragments and conserved.

Height: 4.7 cm.Diameter: 15.5 cm.

Knossos

North Cemetery, Tomb 34.F42

Early Archaic period:

650-600 BC:

Gallery:

XVI

Case:

162

Exhibition thematic unit:

Geometric - Archaic - Classical period (10th-4th c. BC). Trade. Cultural influences

Description

faience bowl with blue-green glaze after firing. The base is almost flat with a slightly curved surface. The body is hemispherical with a central boss. The outside is decorated with two pairs of animals in relief and floral motifs, while the boss on the inside bears a relief rosette. The bowl imitates Egyptian vessels in the “Low Relief” style of the Third Intermediate Period. Its discover as a funerary offering at Knossos indicates the city’s connections with both Egypt and Eastern Greece, attesting to its outward-looking attitude on the maritime trading routes of the period.

Bibliography:

Coldstream J.N. - Catling H.W.(eds), Knossos North Cemetery, Early Greek Tombs, Athens, 1996, (vol. Ι) 85, (vol. II) 608. Stampolidis N. Chr. - Karetsou A. (eds) Ανατολική Μεσόγειος, Κύπρος-Δωδεκάνησα-Κρήτη, 16ος-6ος αι. π.Χ., Heraklion, 1998, 212. Karetsou A. - Andreaki-Vlazaki M., Crete-Egypt, Three thousand years of cultural links, Herakleion-Cairo, 2001, 357.

Author:

S. P.

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