Mycenaean palace amphora with octopuses (NAMA 6725)

The Mycenaean vase with a seabed scene in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (NAMA) with the inventory number Π 6725 is dated to the 15th century BC. Dated. She was found in the second grave in the Mycenaean burial ground Prosymna near Argos .

It is a three -handled amphora that belongs to the so-called palace amphorae , which appeared on the Greek mainland in the Late Helladic II A (approx. First half of the 15th century) and is strongly influenced by the Minoan palace amphorae. It is decorated with a scene from the bottom of the sea, with rocks, algae and three large octopuses whose long arms wrap around the whole vase. The work is assigned to a Mycenaean vase painter who works entirely in the tradition of Cretan, Minoan vase painting .

Web links

• Image in the "Digital Collection" of the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sport

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nikolaos Kaltsas: The National Archaeological Museum , 2007, ISBN 978-960-89339-2-7 , p. 145 ( online )
2. ↑ On the palace amphoras in general: Penelope A. Mountjoy Mycenaean Pottery. An Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2nd edition 2001, pp. 44f.