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Bronze cauldron stand

Χ379
Metal (Bronze)
Mended
Height: 16.6 cm.Diameter: 14 cm.
Knossos
Tholos Tomb 3
Subminoan-Protogeometric period:
1050-950 BC:
Gallery:
XIX
Case:
190
Exhibition thematic unit:
Geometric - Archaic - Classical period (10th-4th c. BC). The Cemeteries
Metal Grave Goods
Description
Small bronze tripod stand used to support a cauldron. Such tripods have been found in many parts of the East Mediterranean and are thought to originate from Cyprus. Various local imitations have also come to light. The legs are made of simple rods, with smaller rods used as decoration and to provide further support. This example has a large, solid central ring with two bands at top and bottom, while the legs terminate in bovid hooves and rise to two scrolls reminiscent of Ionic column capitals. These objects were often used in funerary, oracular, cult and other rituals, and their discovery in a tomb is indicative of their function.
Bibliography:
Hogarth, D.G., “Knossos. Summary reports of the excavations in 1900: II. Early town and cemetaries”, Annual of the British School at Athens 6 (1899-1900), 83. Hall E., “Excavations in easter Crete, Vrokastro,” in University of Pennsylvania. The Museum Archaeological Publications Vol. III No. 3, Philadelphia, 1914, 132-135, pl. 34, 2. Matthäus H., Metallgefäẞe und Gefäẞuntersätze der Bronzezeit, der geometrischen und archaischen Perioden auf Cypern, mit einem Anhang der bronzezeitlichen Schwertfunde auf Cypern, Prähistorische Bronzefunde II: 8, München, 1985, 305(f), pl. 134,2. Papasavvas G., Χάλκινοι Υποστάτες από την Κύπρο και την Κρήτη: Τριποδικοί και τετράπλευροι υποστάτες από την Ύστερη Εποχή του Χαλκού έως την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Σιδήρου, Nicosia, 2001, 249, fig. 129. Hoggarth D.G., “Knossos. Early town and cemeteries”, The Annual of the British School at Athens VI (1899-1900), 70-85. Catling H.W. Cypriot Bronzework in the Mycenaean World, Oxford, 1964, 198, pl. 30e. Stampolidis N. Chr. - Karetsou A. (eds) Ανατολική Μεσόγειος, Κύπρος-Δωδεκάνησα-Κρήτη, 16ος-6ος αι. π.Χ., Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης-Υπ.Πο. ΚΓ’ ΕΠΚΑ, Heraklion, 1998, 231.
Author:
S. P.


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