Cycladic handle (Paros 2136)
The Cycladic handle shell ( Archaeological Museum Paros , inventory number 2136; National Archaeological Museum Athens , inventory number 6291) is a clay vessel of the Bronze Age Cycladic culture of the Kampos type . The handle from early Cycladic times comes from grave 3 of the small burial ground of Kampos on the Cycladic island of Paros . It was discovered in the autumn of 1924 during excavations under the direction of Irini Varoucha without any additional finds and first published in 1926. It is exhibited in the Paros Archaeological Museum under inventory number 2136. The purpose of the Cycladic handle scales is not known, they are often referred to as "Cycladic pans".
description
The handle shell is made up of several fragments, defective spots on the handle, on the wall and on the base plate are supplemented with plaster. The height of the handle made of dark gray-brown to red-brown clay is 6.15 cm, the length 23.8 cm. At 20.45 cm, the edge diameter is slightly smaller than the bottom diameter of 21.2 cm. The outer surface and the inner wall of the pool are provided with a dark gray-brown to olive-brown coating. The pelvic floor is painted irregularly, it shows small traces of sintering. The base plate is decorated with several incised irregular circles, indented triangular bands and two double-lined elongated spiral bands. On the wall, a double-lined, elongated spiral band is surrounded by a row of triangles at the top and bottom. There are white paint residues in the decorations .
meaning
Handle scales appear for the first time in the early Cycladic Kampos group . They already show various common characteristics. As a rule, the central motif is surrounded by a group of incised concentric circles, indented triangular lines and spiral decoration with double-lined inlet tangents. A star pattern is also often used. The decorations do not take up the entire area of the base plate. The decorative elements of the base plate are very often repeated on the wall. The Π-shaped bow handle is attached to the pan wall with thick beads.
In terms of shape and decoration, there are two very similar specimens to the handle from Paros, one from Evia in the Benaki Museum in Athens and a fragmented specimen excavated by Christos Tsountas in 1898 in Kato Akrotiri on Amorgos in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
See also
literature
- Irini Varoucha: Kykladikoi taphoi tēs Parou (Κυκλαδικοί τάφοι της Πάρου) In: Ephēmeris archaiologikē 1925–1926, pp. 98–114 (digitized: pp. 99, 107 Fig. 9 ).
- John E. Coleman: "Frying Pans" of the Early Bronze Age Aegean. In: American Journal of Archeology 89, 1985, pp. 191-219.
- Jörg Rambach: Cyclades I. The early Bronze Age - grave and settlement findings. Habelt, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-7749-2831-2 , p. 144 plate 80.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rambach 2000, plate 80, 1.
- ↑ Coleman 1985, p. 211.
- ↑ Coleman 1985, p. 196 f .; Rambach 2000, pp. 201-203.
- ↑ Coleman 1985, p. 213; Grip shell 7688, Benaki-Museum ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Coleman 1985, p. 210.
