File:MM IIB Kamares style amphora from Knossos - Oxford AM.jpg

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English: object type / vase shape: minoan two-handled ovoid amphora / narrow-necked jar

- material: pottery (clay) - decoration technique: (cream-coloured) white and orange painting on dark (black) slip, depicting palm trees - style / ware: Kamares style - period: middle minoan IIB-III / protopalatial period (dating in Herakleion museum: 1800-1700 BC) - height: ca. 57 cm - findspot: Knossos, palace, loom weight area - museum / inventory number: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum - other fragments of the same vase in: Herakleion, Archaeological Museum 7691 - bibliographic / online reference: Gisela Walberg, Kamares. A Study of the Character of Palatial Middle Minoan Pottery, Göteborg 1987(2), form 11, type 56:10, fig. 3 - Joseph A. Macgillivray, Knossos: Pottery Groups of the Old Palace Period (BSA Studies 5) 1998, cat. 891

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