Bath-shaped larnax (coffin) with four handles

Details

• Title

  Bath-shaped larnax (coffin) with four handles

• Associated place

  Europe › Greece › Crete › Lasithi › Palaikastro (find spot)

• Date

  Late Minoan IIIA Period (c. 1400 - c. 1300 BC)

• Material and technique

  clay, pigment

• Object type

  container › coffin › larnax

• Dimensions

  40.5 x 89 x 46 cm (height x width x depth)
  25 kg estimated (weight)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by The Committee of the British School at Athens, 1910.

• Museum location

  Ground floor | Gallery 20 | Aegean World

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1910.783

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