The rock crystal rhyton
Late Bronze age, about 1500 BC
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Own work, Jebulon as photographer
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Small vase, unique in its kind, justly considered a masterpiece of Minoan stone carving. It has an elongated body with pointed bottom made of an unusually large piece of rock crystal. The neck and splaying rim, also of rock crystal, are joined to the body by a crystal ring decorated with vertical rings of gilt faïence. The tall handle is formed by fourteen beads of gilt crystal, threaded onto a bronze wire.
