• Basket-shaped rhyton with decoration in the Special Palatial Tradition



Basket-shaped rhyton with decoration in the Special Palatial Tradition
Basket-shaped rhyton with decoration in the Special Palatial Tradition
Basket-shaped rhyton with decoration in the Special Palatial Tradition

Basket-shaped rhyton with decoration in the Special Palatial Tradition

Π5407
Clay
Whole (mended and restored)
Height: 15 cm. Width: 13 cm.
Pseira
Building BQ
Late Bronze Age, Neopalatial period, Late Minoan IB period:
1500-1450 BC:
Gallery:
V
Case:
47
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC). The New Palaces. The zenith of Minoan civilisation
Settlements of East Crete
Description
Basket-shaped libation vessel decorated with four rows of double axes in black on a buff slip, in the Special Palatial Tradition typical of Late Minoan IB. It has two tall handles, a flat upper body and a cylindrical base. On the underside of the base are three concentric circles and a pouring hole for libations. The vessel was found in Building BQ in the Minoan town of Pseira, together with other fine vases (mainly rhyta) in the Special Palatial Tradition of Knossian origin (such as the Late Minoan IB Marine Style rhyton ΑΜΗ Π5408 and the pyxis-shaped vessel ΑΜΗ Π5406), which were stored for use in a ceremony or procession.
Bibliography:
Betancourt, P. P., Davaras, C. (eds). Pseira IV: Minoan Buildings in Areas B, C, D, and F. University Museum Monograph 105. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 1999, 134-135, 300, pl. 14 (ΒQ2), 19 (B-D). Betancourt, P. P. "Pottery at Pseira in LM IB", in: T. M. Brogan and E. Hallager (eds), LM IB pottery: Relative chronology and regional differences. Acts of a workshop held at the Danish Institute at Athens in collaboration with the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, 27-29 June 2007, Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 11(2), The Danish Institute at Athens, 2011, 401-412. Seager, R. B. Excavations on the island of Pseira, Crete. Philadelphia, The University Museum, 1910, 30-32. Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki, Ν. Το Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Ηρακλείου, Athens, Τράπεζα EFG Eurobank Εργασίας Α.Ε. /J. S. Latsis Foundation, 2005, 273.
Author:
P. S.


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