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Object Number

SMP19096

Description

Straight-sided pithos (H.56.5 cm; DR. 20 cm) partly restored; much of upper part of riverside missing. Cream slip. Concave lip with ridge. Sharp carination between shoulder and body. Flat rising loop handles. Flat base. Paint on and below lip

three lines; hatched zigzag on shoulder

band between lines. Body: figured scene on each side flanked by columns of crossed-hatched triangles. Handle barred

the bars continuing to the lower limit of the body decoration. Under each handle

three fish in triple outline

and with various fellings for body; head marked off by curved bands; circle for eyes

open mouths.

Figured scenes: A

nature goddess standing on wheeled-platform between two trees with spiral branches. She wears a tall-checked polos with upper fringe

wig-like hair indicated by hatching; outlined face in profile

dotted circle for eye

curved line for erebrow; hear and cheek; chin shown but nose omitted. Hatched neck; diagonal lines indicating shall-like himation. Triangular torso with thick solid edge and traces of interior cross-hatching. Her arms in hatched-outlined are raised. Hands are not indicated

but in each she holds a small bird with bent legs and hatched-body

and head indicated by a curve line with dot for eye. To her shoulders are attached sickle-shaped wings in hatched-outlines. Her waist is missing. Lower drapery indicated by a long double-outline rectangle enclosing two ladder patterns wchich flank a central column enclosing two long solid rectangles. Her feet

to L.

are seen below the hem. The wheel-platform is hatched

each wheel enclosing a cross with reserved centre. The trees grow from solid triangular bases

and above the spiral branches are palm-liked fronds. On the L. tree

facing the goddess

purches a large bid with triangular body in gridded outlined and with fan tail; a long hatched neck ends in an outlined head with open beak and dotted circular eye. Above the head

a solid-painted apex

with long wavy crest

suggests a heron.
Side B: again

a nature goddess on a similar wheel-platform flanked by trees. Missing are her head

neck

part of upper chest

and R. arm. A triangular torso has a hatched-outlined enclosing a solid triangular centre. One shoulder is preserved

whence a hatched sickle shaped wing raises upwards. Both arms

bent outwards at the helbow

reach downwards; hands and fingers indicated. With the L. hand she releases a bird which flies down

wing raised

with the R. hand she still holds a bird by the neck

preparing to release it; each bird simplified as on side A. The trees

however

are markedly different: no triangular base

but trunks shawn by double ladder pattern to L.

single ladder to R.; short oblique strokes flanking both

as though indicating deciduous trees in winter. To L. large triangle-bird as on side A.

but with the addition of a solid central triangle; head missing but curved wings in double-outlined attached to apex of body

as though about to take flight. Traces of triangle-bird also on R. tree: outline neck

helmet? Cressed

and body apex with wings as on L. The goddess lower drapery

within double rectangular outline

contains millsail with curved edge and gridded squares. Protogeometric-early geometric.

Specimen Count

1

Preservation State

Complete

Collection Date From

1978

Department

Knossos

Collection

Stratigraphical Museum

Other IDs

T.107.114

fig. 109 (107.114)

pl. 155-156

EMu IRN

166688