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Inventory number

AP 2549

Category

Vessel

Period

Late Bronze Age (Mycenaean)

Date

1225-1190 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.095 m
Diameter: 0.114 m
Base diameter: 0.055 m

Material

Clay

Location

First Floor Case 3, Νο 5

Description
Bibliography

Kylix mended of many fragments. It was found in 1937-1938 during the excavation of the “Mycenaean Fountain” on the north slope of the Acropolis. Its base is disk-shaped, the body conical, the high rim outturned and the handle vertical.

Kylikes of this type were used most possibly as lamps given that they could be filled with oil on which the wick floated.

ASCSA Digital Collections - www.ascsa.net, αρ.κατ. AP 2549
Broneer, O., «Mycenean Fountain», Hesperia 8, 1939, σελ. 376-377, εικ. 58b
Mountjoy, P.A., Mycenean Athens, Jonsered, 1995, σελ. 44, εικ. 57
Gauss, W., «Neue Forschungen zur prähistorischen Akropolis von Athen», στο F. Blakolmer (επιμ.), Österreichsche Forschungen zur Ägaischen Bronzezeit, Akten der Tagung am Institut für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Wien, 2.-3. Mai 1998 Vienna: Wiener Forschungen zur Archäologie, Vienna, 2000, σελ. 173 και υποσημ. 60, 175 υποσημ. 81, 84, εικ. 6,3
Gauss, W., «Late Mycenaean Pottery from the Northslope of the Athenian Acropolis of Athens», στο S. Deger-Jalkotzy, M. Zavadil (επιμ.), LH III C Chronology and Synchronisms, Wien, 2003, σελ. 95 και υποσημ. 17, εικ. 1:3