from Part VI - Aegean Art in the Final Palatial Period of Knossos
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022
Bronze vessels become more and more common on the mainland. Previously limited to the main Peloponnesian centres (tombs at Mycenae, Sparta, Pylos), they now appear in the regions of Achaea, Attica, and Boeotia (Matthäus 1980, maps pl. 64 A and B). There are also many on Crete, in the palace of Knossos and in the warrior burials (M. Popham, H. Catling, BSA 69, 1974, 247–52). They consist chiefly of large basins, adorned at the rim and handle, as well as piriform jugs with a decorated band on the shoulder (AE2, fig. 93). Taking their inspiration from Minoan Neopalatial vessels, the typical motifs are ‘snails’ (Matthäus 1980, n° 392), common also in goldwork or ivory, or stylised lilies, as on the rim and shoulder of an oenochoe from tomb 12 at Dendra (Åström 1977, pl. XXVII).
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