Low navelled bowl, round sized with two small handles on the sides. It was a household item. It has no decoration but on the bottom there is an omphalos (onfalo or navel) that is a central recess. Omphalos is common on vases without handles and of ritual use such as patere or phialai, and is useful to the handling of the vase because this small recess allowed to hold the vase to be molded with one hand while a finger of the other hand is placed in the external depression and the thumb on the edge. It is an open-shaped vessel whose dimensions can vary from small to medium, but there are no large ones. Its use was for domestic use, in the kitchen or as a container for food and liquids, to be taken by grabbingthe side handles.
The bol formed the funeral set of tomb nr 17 in which an adult man was buried, curled up on his right side
The original artefact has incomplete handles and is 6 cm high with a diameter of the edge of about 17 cm.
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