object type: stone vessel
- description: bowl from the protodynastic period in Egypt; reworked by a Minoan craftsman probably in the neoplalatial period into a bridge-spouted jar, perforations for the (lost) side 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: 17.3 cm - findspot: Zakros. palace treasury - museum / inventory number: Heraklion, Archaeological Museum 2695 - bibliography: Peter Warren, Minoan Stone Vases, Cambridge 1969, P 593 - Sinclair Hood, The Arts in Prehistoric Greece, 1978, fig. 142 - Please note: The above museum permits photography of its exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes. If you intend to use the photo for any commercial aim, please contact the museum and ask for permission.
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