Basin handle with snakes

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Inventory number

ΕΑΜ Χ 7127

Category

Vessel attachment

Period

Archaic-Classical Period

Date

550-450 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.177 m

Material

Bronze

Location

First Floor Case 18, Νο 14

Description
Bibliography

Bronze vessel’s handle pieced together from two fragments. It is a semi-circular, flat handle that was horizontally placed on a vessel, probably a basin. The handle forms a low arch that is decorated on its upper surface with an incised tongue motif.

The arch ends at small bands with vertical grooves from where two-headed snakes emerge. The snake heads are decorated with scales rendered with curving and small, parallel, incised lines and the eyes with small circles.

De Ridder, A., Bronzes Trouvés sur l' Acropole d'Athènes, Paris, 1896, σελ. 69, εικ. 45, αρ. κατ. 210
Jantzen, U., «Griechische Bronzeteller», Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Athenische Abteilung 63/64, 1938/39, σελ. 142, 152, εικ. 35.1, αρ. κατ. 5
Tarditi, C., Bronze Vessels from the Acropolis: Style and Decoration in Athenian Production between the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BC, Thiasos Monografie 7, Roma, 2016, σελ. 209, 292-293, 313, αρ. κατ. 7127