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Reproduction of a Minoan Rhyton

Reproduction of a Minoan Rhyton

Minoan

Reproduction of original terracotta rhyton decorated with brown slip and added red and white paint. Upper register features spiral patterns with crocus bud centers; middle register decorated with 'lunate and wave' motif; lower register decorated with crocus flowers. Original was found at Gournia, House Cm, room 58, and is now in the Herakleion Archaeological Museum. (HM 2832) For information on the original see Robert B. Koehl, Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta (Philadelphia, 2006), cat. 435, p. 141.

Polychrome plaster

Minoan period, Late Minoan IA

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