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Vasiliki wares are a distinctive type of Minoan settlement of Vasiliki
minoancrete.com Dating varies between scholars, but the Early Minoan II period is generally thought to run between around 2600–2000 BC. The typical long-spouted pots, with a relatively small top mouth, are often called "teapots" by archaeologists; another common shape is called the "egg-cup".
File:Vasiliki teapots with elongated spouts AMH Heraklion.jpg, White style Vasiliki ware, AMH
File:Vasiliki ware tea pot archmus Heraklion.jpg, Another style of "teapot", Vasiliki, 2400–2200 BC, AMH
File:Vasiliki ware, jug, 2400-2200 BC, AMH, 144530.jpg, Vasiliki ware, jug, 2400–2200 BC
File:Tonkrug Vasiliki 01.jpg, Teapot in the white style, 2300–2000 BC, AMH
File:Pottery from Vasiliki, 2300-1900 BC, AMH, 144823.jpg, White style jug, 2300–1900 BC
File:Vasiliki ware from Phournou Koryphi 2.JPG, Other shapes; two "egg-cups" at rear
Vasiliki wares are a distinctive type of Minoan pottery
Minoan pottery has been used as a tool for dating the mute Minoan civilization. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something of Minoan patrons' pleasure in novelty while they assist archaeologists in assigning relat ...
produced in Crete
Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and ...
during the Minoan
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings were from 3500BC, with the complex urban civilization beginning around 2000BC, and then declining from 1450B ...
period, named for the finds around the town of Vasiliki, Lasithi
Vasiliki is the name of a village in the municipality of Ierapetra, in the prefecture of Lasithi, on Crete, and the name of the nearby Minoan archeological site. The site took its name from the village.
Geography
Vasiliki lies on a small hill in ...
, although it was produced at other sites too. The vases include a reddish-brown wash applied unevenly to mimic stone vessels. The mottling was produced by uneven firing of the slip-covered pot, with the hottest areas turning dark. Considering that the mottling was controlled into a pattern, touching with hot coals was probably used to produce it. There is also a style painted in a creamy white over the reddish-brown wash applied all over the body.
The first examples of Vasiliki ware are to be found in East Crete during EM IIA period, but it is in the next period, EM IIB, that it becomes the dominant form among the fine wares throughout eastern and southern Crete.minoancrete.com Dating varies between scholars, but the Early Minoan II period is generally thought to run between around 2600–2000 BC. The typical long-spouted pots, with a relatively small top mouth, are often called "teapots" by archaeologists; another common shape is called the "egg-cup".
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