Vassiliki style

Three Vasiliki style jugs from Phournou Koryphi , Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos .

The Vassiliki style (also: Wasiliki style) is a Minoan ceramic style from the middle pre-palace period (around 2800 BC to 2300 BC ) on Crete . The ceramic is also known as flamed ware .

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The namesake is the location of flat-bottomed jugs, teapots, plates and mugs in this style at the Vassiliki archaeological site of the Pachia Ammos village Vasiliki on a hill in the isthmus of Ierapetra in Crete.

Vasiliki style pottery, Heraklion Archaeological Museum

The hallmark of the Vassiliki style is a differently colored, flamed surface, which was achieved through uneven firing.

The production of ceramics was limited to the eastern part of Crete. As early as 1900, the British archaeologist David George Hogarth found a single hand-shaped cup with a Vasiliki-style handle as a grave object in a cave in the Gorge of the Dead . During the excavations in Vasiliki in 1904 by Richard Berry Seager , around 180 vessels of the new style came to light on three days of excavation.

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Individual evidence

^ Archaeological data on the Vasiliki archaeological site

^ David G. Hogarth: Excavations at Zakro, Crete. In: The annual of the British school at Athens. Vol. 7, 1900/1901, ISSN 0068-2454 , pp. 121-149, here p. 143, online .

^ Richard B. Seager: Excavations at Vasiliki, 1904. In: University of Pennsylvania. Transactions of the Department of Archeology, Free Museum of Science and Art. Vol. 1, No. 3, 1904/1905, ZDB -ID 625600-4 , 207-221, here pp. 207-208, online .

[1] Archaeological data on the Vasiliki archaeological site

[2] David G. Hogarth: Excavations at Zakro, Crete. In: The annual of the British school at Athens. Vol. 7, 1900/1901, ISSN 0068-2454 , pp. 121-149, here p. 143, online .

[3] Richard B. Seager: Excavations at Vasiliki, 1904. In: University of Pennsylvania. Transactions of the Department of Archeology, Free Museum of Science and Art. Vol. 1, No. 3, 1904/1905, ZDB -ID 625600-4 , 207-221, here pp. 207-208, online .