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Terracotta Larnax in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2019
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Terracotta larnax (chest-shaped coffin)
mid-13th century B.C.
Minoan
Object Details
Title: Terracotta larnax (chest-shaped coffin)
Period: Late Minoan IIIB
Date: mid-13th century B.C.
Culture: Minoan
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: Overall with lid 40 x 18 x 42 1/4 in. (101.6 x 45.7 x 107.3 cm)
H. of body 30 1/2 in. (77.5 cm)
H. of lid 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
Classification: Terracottas
Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Nicolas and Mireille Koutoulakis, 1996
Accession Number: 1996.521a, b
The larnax was the standard type of coffin in Crete from the early fourteenth century to the twelfth century B.C. The structure with recessed panels on each side suggests a wooden prototype, and recent scholarship has identified Egyptian chests as the probable models. The decoration on each side consists of geometric and vegetal ornaments well represented on contemporary pottery. The larnax stands at the beginning of an impressive series of large-scale funerary monuments in the Greek and Roman collection.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/256844
mid-13th century B.C.
Minoan
Object Details
Title: Terracotta larnax (chest-shaped coffin)
Period: Late Minoan IIIB
Date: mid-13th century B.C.
Culture: Minoan
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: Overall with lid 40 x 18 x 42 1/4 in. (101.6 x 45.7 x 107.3 cm)
H. of body 30 1/2 in. (77.5 cm)
H. of lid 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
Classification: Terracottas
Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Nicolas and Mireille Koutoulakis, 1996
Accession Number: 1996.521a, b
The larnax was the standard type of coffin in Crete from the early fourteenth century to the twelfth century B.C. The structure with recessed panels on each side suggests a wooden prototype, and recent scholarship has identified Egyptian chests as the probable models. The decoration on each side consists of geometric and vegetal ornaments well represented on contemporary pottery. The larnax stands at the beginning of an impressive series of large-scale funerary monuments in the Greek and Roman collection.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/256844
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