tripod

Object Number

SMP7162

Name

tripod

Description

Tripod-stand strut. PH. 0.035m. Th. 0.008m. Fine orange clay

buff surface

a little silver mica. Thin but lustrous black glaze

flaking. Not glazed inside. Attic. On these stands

clay imitations of bronze. See Catling

Cypriot Bronzework in the Mycenaean World (Oxford

1964) 215 ff.; on their frequency in Attic EG

GGP 15; for this piece cf. especially Hesperia XXX (1961) 302-3 no.4

pls. 63a and 64b

from a grave at Thorikos transitional between EG II and MG I

c. 850 BC.

Specimen Count

1

Preservation State

Fragment

Department

Knossos

Collection

Stratigraphical Museum

Other IDs

B43

EMu IRN

91381