stand

Object Number

SMM248

Name

stand

Description

The stand was probably laid on the body

for it seems to have been at the heart of the fire. There are 43 pieces whose approximate position in the stand can be deduced

having largely retained their original form. There are 38 pieces which have completely altered shape by fire action

yet can confidently be assigned to the stand.The recognizable pieces include three feet

five sections of the vertical elements of the frame (one joining a foot)

one transom-vertical junction (probably joining one of the vertical above)

three transom fragments (one a junction with a vertical)

one transom-and-strut-and- ring

eleven strut frs.

one strut fragment combined with dangler ring

eleven pieces of the ajouré figurework

four triple rod mouldings

two five-rod mouldings (from the ring support?)

one unidentifiable.
The basic design consisted of a ring support resting on the four-sided frame. The vertical sides of the frame enlarged at their lower ends into feet (not zoomorphic); the vertical elements were trussed together by transoms in certainly two

possibly three registers. Struts

made as parallel rods

spring from each side of each foot and were attached to the centre underside of each of the lower (lowest) transoms. A suspension ring for a dangler was attached to the underside of the struts at each apex; no danglers were identified.
The allocation of the fragments of ajouré human and animal figures to the design is impossible. Difference in scale

however

suggests that there may have been two figured registers each side

separated by transoms. Among the fragments can be recognized the lower part of a long robed human figure

standing birds

a quadruped (feline?)

a raised wing (probably sphinx) and animal legs. The design of the ring support is also uncertain

but it may have consisted of an ajouré wavy band bounded at the top by a band of five horizontal ring mouldings

at the bottom

a band of three horizontal mouldings. The object was made in Cyprus in the later thirteenth - earlier twelfth century be.

Specimen Count

1

Preservation State

Fragment

Collection Date From

1978

Department

Knossos

Collection

Stratigraphical Museum

Other IDs

201.f1

SF 1

EMu IRN

44104