Minoan/Mycenaean Source Materials

Pottery – Amphoroid krater

Find spot:  Maroni Valley Graves, Cyprus
Date: 1375-1300 BCE
Clothing depicted: Cloaks
Museum link: The British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1911-0428-1
Museum number: 1911,0428.1

From the museum:
Pottery Late Helladic IIIA2a (Mycenaean) amphoroid krater of Furumark type FS 53, restored from a number of fragments. Red painted decoration on two faces of the krater represents four chariots each pulled by two horses and with two riders, in a procession (?); palm and chevron motifs fill the spaces.

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