Frying pan (Paros 2136)

The Cycladic Frying pan (Archaeological Museum of Paros, Inventory number 2136; National Archaeological Museum of Athens number 6291) is a ceramic object from the Bronze Age Cycladic culture of the Kampos type.

The frying pan is composed of several sherds; gaps in the handle, side and back have been filled in with plaster.

[1] The surface plate is decorated with several irregular circles, stamped triangle borders and two elongated spiral bands.

As a rule, there is a central motif surrounded by a group of incised concentric circles, bands of stamped triangles, and spirals linked with double lines.

[3] There are two frying pans very similar to the example from Paros in form and decorations; one of unknown provenance in the Benaki Museum, Athens[4] and a fragmentary example in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, excavated by Christos Tsountas at Kato Akrotiri on Amorgos in 1898.