Description: Cretan Minoan Octopus Pottery Vase Museum Replica Reproduction Pre-Greece Signed. Good quality piece of pottery! Measures: 7.75" tall by 6.25" wide. No chips or cracks, minute paint chips in several areas, see photos. The original of this piece, found in the palace at Knossos, is in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum in Heraklion on Crete and dates to ca 1500 BC. There is a similar one in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Minoan Octopus Amphora has been used as a tool for dating the mute Minoan civilization. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something of Minoan patrons' pleasure in novelty while they assist archaeologists in assigning relative dates to the strata of their sites. Pots that contained oils and ointments, exported from 18th century BC Crete, have been found at sites through the Aegean islands and mainland Greece, on Cyprus, along coastal Syria and in Egypt, showing the wide trading contacts of the Minoans.
Price: 134.99 USD
Location: Vinton, Virginia
End Time: 2024-09-04T21:28:30.000Z
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Size: Medium
Color: Black
Material: Clay
Item Length: 7 in
Modified Item: No
Subject: Octopus
Brand: Handmade
Department: Adults
Type: Greek Vase
Style: Greek
Theme: Greek
Time Period Manufactured: 2020-Now
Country/Region of Manufacture: Greece
Handmade: Yes
