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Bronze bowl with Phoenician inscription

Χ4346

Metal (Bronze)

Intact

Height: 6.7 cm.Rim diameter: 15 cm.

Knossos

North Cemetery, Tomb J

Protogeometric period:

970-870 BC:

Gallery:

XVI

Case:

160

Exhibition thematic unit:

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

Description

Bronze hemispherical bowl with thick walls. Under the rim is an incised ropelike band with a Phoenician inscription recording the owner’s name (“Cup of Χ, son of Υ”). It is evidence that the Cretans had already come into contact with the Phoenician script in the 10th century BC. The bowl appears to have been made in Phoenicia and deposited as a funerary offering accompanying the burials of two women at Knossos.

Bibliography:

Catling H. W., “The Knossos Area 1974-1976”, Archaeological Reports 23 (1976-77), Athens, 1977, 12, fig. 27. Coldstream J.N. - Catling H.W. (eds), Knossos North Cemetery, Early Greek Tombs, Athens, 1996, (vol. Ι) 30, (vol. II) 563-564, fig. 157. Stampolidis N. Chr. - Karetsou A. (eds) Ανατολική Μεσόγειος, Κύπρος-Δωδεκάνησα-Κρήτη, 16ος-6ος αι. π.Χ., Heraklion, 1998, 238-239.

Author:

S. P.

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