Tripod Bowl

MS4885

From: Greece | Crete | Agios Antonios

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS4885
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Agios Antonios
Period Early Minoan II | Early Minoan III
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Tripod cooking bowl. Conical bowl with everted rim, supported by three curved legs. One pair of holes in rim, 0.052 m. apart, probably for a handle. Rounded base. Undecorated. Restored from fragments. Surface eroded. Fabric: medium textured, pink (7.5YR 7/4) clay with reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) slip, inside and out.

Height 9.6 cm
Outside Diameter 15.8 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); E. H. Hall, 1912

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