Stone vessel
Archaeological museum Messenia, Kalamata
26_05_Λ4062_071116_G_300_3
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Stone vessel
1399 BCE – 1200 BCE
Archaeological museum Messenia, Kalamata
chamber tomb 6, Ellinika, Antheia, Messenia
Height: 25.6 cm
Stone vessel made of grey serpentine, mended and restored. Found broken in pieces at the stomion deposit of tomb 6 at the mycenaean acropolis of Ellinika, Antheia. Made in two parts: the body and the attached neck/mouth. The body is ovoid, with a flat base. The shoulder ends in an opening/ socket for the attachment of the inset part of the neck. Τhe latter consists of a cylindrical low stem that is inserted into the socket of the body. The base of the concave neck is bulging, forming a plastic ring with vertical incised striations and grooves. The rim is almost discoid, with a flat upper surface. The lip is decorated with relief grooves on the perimeter. Deep stone-cutter’s marks in the interior, caused by the chiseling-out of the inner core of the vessel. The attachment of the inset part of the neck to the shoulder was facilitated by four pairs of holes in the body of the vessel and the added part of the neck. A lid, made of a different stone, could probably belong to this vessel; it has a central high-relief handle, shaped as a figure of eight shield.