Stone offering table with rosette legs



Stone offering table with rosette legs

Λ65
Stone
Intact
Height: 15 cm. Diameter: 29 cm.
Knossos
Palace of Knossos, North-East Magazines
΄Late Bronze Age. Neopalatial period, Middle Minoan ΙΙΙ - Late Minoan I period.:
1700-1450 BC:
Gallery:
IV
Case:
38
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC). The New Palaces. The zenith of Minoan civilisation
The equipment of the palace and houses of Knossos
Description
Serpentinite offering table with rosette-shaped legs. This is a luxury cult vessel that may have been used to make offerings, as the traces of its original gilding indicate. The lapidary workshops of the Knossian palace produced a variety of items of ceremonial or practical use, such as offering tables and lamps, as well as vessels with relief pictorial decoration, often inlaid with materials including gold, ivory or shell.
Bibliography:
Evans, A.J. The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos. Vol. I, London, 1921, 387. Dimopoulou, Ν. "Οι τέχνες." In S. Mandalaki and G. Rethemiotakis (eds), Μινωικός κόσμος. Ταξίδι στις απαρχές της Ευρώπης, Heraklion, 2015, 167. Warren, P. Minoan Stone Vases. Cambridge, 1969, 97, P549.
Author:
G. F.


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