Acquisition number: 1973.14
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Minoan Dish. A simple dish of somewhat carinated form with a flat cut-away base. Smooth pale orange-buff clay with small dark red inclusions. The vase is undecorated although the excavators took the wheelmarks on the inside of such dishes as deliberate.
Title: Minoan Dish - 1973.14
Acquisition number: 1973.14
Acquisition source or name: Trustees of the British Museum
Acquisition year: 1973
Owner type: ANU Classics Museum
Culture or period: Middle Minoan III
Date: c. 1600 BC
Date century or Timeline (notional): 1600 to 1501
Material: Clay
Object type: Vessels - Dish/plate
Dimensions: 65mm (w) × 35mm (h)
Origin region or location: Greece
Origin city: Knossos
Display case or on loan: 1
Collection history: Donation/Gift/Exchange
Keywords: Bronze Age, Middle Minoan III, Minoan, Knossos, Crete
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U., Canberra, 1981, p.17.
1973.14
Minoan Dish
From Knossos; presented by the Trustees of the British Museum. Ht ca 3.5cm; diam. ca 6.5cm.
A simple dish of somewhat carinated form with a flat cut-away base. Smooth pale orange-buff clay with small dark red inclusions. The vase is undecorated although the excavators took the wheelmarks on the inside of such dishes as deliberate.
Middle Minoan III; ca 1600 bc. Compare the juglet 1973.13.
J.R. Green with B. Rawson, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Australian National University, A.N.U., Canberra, 1981, p.17.
1973.14
Small Minoan dish
Wheel-made; from the Palace at Knossos
Middle Minoan III / c. 1600 BC
Presented by the Trustees of the British Museum
Presented by the Trustees of the British Museum.