Hook-shaped glass paste pin



Hook-shaped glass paste pin


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Glass paste
Intact
Length: 16.1 cm.
Phourni
Tholos Tomb Α
Late Bronze Age, Final Palatial period. Late Minoan IIIA1 period:
1400-1375 BC:
Gallery:
X
Case:
110
Exhibition thematic unit:
Late Bronze Age - Neopalatial period (1700-1450 BC) - Final Palatial period (1450-1300 BC).The cemeteries
Knossos and Archanes. The Graves with Bronzes.
Description
Blue glass paste pin, its fragile material indicating that it was probably used to secure a fine garment.
Bibliography:
Sakellarakis, J. and E. Sapouna-Sakellaraki. Αρχάνες. Μια νέα ματιά στη μινωική Κρήτη. vol.2 Athens, 1997, 668.
Author:
K. T.


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