object type: stone vessel
<p>- description:  fluted bowl from the protodynastic period in Egypt; reworked by a Minoan craftsman probably in the neoplalatial period: most of the original rim was cut off and used to form a ring base. The rest of the rim was ribbed. The lug handles were perforated for metal handles.
- production place: Egypt and Crete
- period / date: protodynastic period in Egypt, ca. 3100 - 2700 BC and neopalatial period in Crete: middle minoan III - late minoan I, ca. 1550 BC
- material: porphyritic rock with white inclusions
- height: 12 cm
- findspot: Zakros
- museum / inventory number: Heraklion, Archaeological Museum 2714
- bibliography: Peter Warren, Minoan Stone Vases, Cambridge 1969, P 591
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