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Wine jar, from Zakros Palace
The item is painted with loops, spirals and reeds. Neopalatial Period (1600 - 1450 BC)- Heraklion Museum.
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Steatite rhyton, from Zakros Palace
The item was initially covered with gold leaves, traces of which have been preserved. The entire surface is decorated with a low relief scene of an open-air peak sanctuary crowed with horns of consecration, in a superb landscape composition with a mountainous landscape in which wild goats are sitting on the top shrine or leaping about among the rocks and birds are flying in the sky.
Late Neopalatial Period (1450 BC)- Heraklion Museum.
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Marine style jug, from Zakros Palace
Outstanding sample of the marine style, decorated with nautilus. Late Neopalatial Period (1450 BC)- Heraklion Museum.
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Rhyton of Chlorite, from Zakros Palace (Heraklion Museum)
Chlorite rhyton in the shape of a bull's head from the "Sanctuary Treasury" of the Palace of Zakros. Late Neopalatial Period (1450 BC)
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Rhyton of Spartan basalt, from Zakros Palace
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Amphora, from Zakros Palace (Heraklion Museum)
Elaborate ritual amphora of multicoloured veined stone, from the "Sanctuary Treasury" of the Palace of Zakros. Late Neopalatial Period (1450 BC)
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Rhyton of rock crystal, from Zakros Palace (Heraklion Museum)
The handle consists of crystal beads, threaded onto a bronze wire, and gilt disks adorn the ring around the neck. Late Neopalatial Period (1450 BC)

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