Pyrgos style

Agios Onouphrios and Pyrgos style ceramics , Heraklion Archaeological Museum .

The Pyrgos style is a ceramic style from the early pre-palace period (around 3500 BC to 2800 BC ). Features of this style are the gray or black glossy surface.

The name of the style was chosen after the place where the first related pieces were found. This was the Minoan archaeological site of Pyrgos near Myrtos on Crete .

Web links

• Pyrgos style cup

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bruckmanns Pantheon Munich 1981, Bruckmann, Volume 39, p. 275.