Shape Type in Special and ritual vessels
Kernos
Also called kernoi, multiple cup vessel
- Objects
- 8
Several small cups or bowls joined on a common ring or base for multiple offerings.
In the Compendium
Complex Vessels › Kernos
Composite, multiple and ring vessels built by multiplying or joining ordinary shapes, mostly Bronze Age tomb pieces, plus figure vases, arm-vessels, incense burners, stands and miniatures.
Across the catalogue
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Places of production
Collections
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art5
- Pierides Museum, Larnaca1
- The Ashmolean Museum1
- The Cyprus Museum, Jacksonville1
Objects
8 objects
Cypriot Early Bronze Age Four-Bowl Hanging Server
Chalcolithic
Kernos
Archaic I
Proto-White Painted triple vessel, or kernos
Late Bronze Age III
Red Polished Ware Bowl with Ladder Handle
Early Bronze Age II
Ring-kernos
Archaic II
Terracotta kernos (vase for multiple offerings)
Archaic I
Terracotta ring-kernos (offering vase)
Geometric I
Terracotta ring-kernos (offering vessel)
Late Bronze Age III