This type of vase, also called a crater, was produced by the Mycenaeans of pre-classical Greece. It illustrates the contacts Syria maintained with the Agean world. The Mycenaeans are thought to have been responsible for the trade in amber, which came from the shores of the Baltic Sea and was used in Syria to make beads for necklaces.
Provenance: Ras ibn Hānī.
Era: Late Bronze Age (1300 BC).
Substance: ceramic.
Dimensions: 47.5 x 36 cm.
Photography: Jacques Lessard.
Collection of the National Museum of Damascus.
Michel Fortin, Syria, Land of Civilization. Les Éditions de l'Homme, Musée de la Civilisation de Québec 1999.
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