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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Antiken aus dem östlichen Mittelmeerraum, Galerie Heidi Vollmoeller, Zurich, 1987, no. 11.
Cf. R. Higgins, Minoan and Mycenaean Art, London, 1981, pp. 122-124, no. 145 for similar.
Terracotta coffins (larnakes) became extremely popular in Crete from the 14th to the 12th Centuries B.C. They were made of coarse clay and decorated with similar motifs to those found on the painted pottery of the period - floral, marine, abstract and aquatic motifs and birds. Two shapes are known: the chest, made in imitation of a rectangular clothes chest with gabled lid, and the 'bath-tub' type, adorned with marine and aquatic motifs. Excavations at Tanagra on the Greek mainland have shown that this Cretan custom of using terracotta coffins was adopted by some Mycenaeans during this period (circa 1400-1200 B.C.). The subjects depicted on the mainland coffins differ, however, being mainly mourning women, some men and occasional birds or floral motifs.
Antiken aus dem östlichen Mittelmeerraum, Galerie Heidi Vollmoeller, Zurich, 1987, no. 11.
Cf. R. Higgins, Minoan and Mycenaean Art, London, 1981, pp. 122-124, no. 145 for similar.
Terracotta coffins (larnakes) became extremely popular in Crete from the 14th to the 12th Centuries B.C. They were made of coarse clay and decorated with similar motifs to those found on the painted pottery of the period - floral, marine, abstract and aquatic motifs and birds. Two shapes are known: the chest, made in imitation of a rectangular clothes chest with gabled lid, and the 'bath-tub' type, adorned with marine and aquatic motifs. Excavations at Tanagra on the Greek mainland have shown that this Cretan custom of using terracotta coffins was adopted by some Mycenaeans during this period (circa 1400-1200 B.C.). The subjects depicted on the mainland coffins differ, however, being mainly mourning women, some men and occasional birds or floral motifs.