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Early Cycladic Stone vessels

Mostly marble, 3200-2000 BC

Rhyta[edit]

3200-2800 BC, EC I period

Stone models[edit]

ca EC II period

Vessels by material[edit]

Steatite[edit]

Marble[edit]

Including other non-steatite stones, mostly marble.

The vast majority, as seen below.

By shape[edit]

Tall cups[edit]

Most of the years 3200-2800 BC, Early Cycladic Bronze Age I period, Grotta-Pelos culture. Sometimes described as the "big rhyton".

Kandiles[edit]

Most of the years 3200-2800 BC, Early Cycladic Bronze Age I period, Grotta-Pelos culture, but likely continue to 2300 BC (EC II period).

In Terminology of British Musem: "Stone vase, known as a kandila". In Terminology of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Kandila. In Terminology of Goulandris Museum: Cycladic collared jar (“kandila”). Sometimes "chandeliers". In Terminology of Colin Renfrew: Kandila.

Paletes[edit]

3200-2300 BC, EC I-II period

Bowls[edit]

3200-2000 BC, EC I - EC III period

Bowls with spout[edit]

ca 3000-2000 BC

Chalices[edit]

Chalices, craters, cups

mostly EC II period

Pixydies[edit]

mostly EC II period

Spherical pixydies[edit]

Double vessels[edit]

Pigeons Vases[edit]

Keros-Syros culture, 2800-2300 BC (EC II period)

Kernoi[edit]

Frying pans[edit]

See Early Cycladic "Frying Pans"

Cretan analogies[edit]

or Cycladic influence in Crete

Egyptian analogies[edit]

Old kingdom, 5th dynasty, ca 2510-2365 BC


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