Minoan Ceramic Mugs (2200-1900 BC) :

Minoans, one of first advanced civilisations in Europe, used cup to drink wine in Crete, where they resided. Thousands of clay and ceramic cups have been discovered on archeological sites on island.

Minoan pottery is more than a useful tool for dating mute Minoan civilization. Its restless sequence of rapidly-maturing artistic styles reveal something of Minoan patrons' pleasure in novelty while they help archaeologists assign relative dates to the strata of their sites. Pots that contained oils and ointments, exported from 18th Century BC, Crete, have been found at sites through the Aegean islands and mainland Greece, on Cyprus, along the coastal Syria and in Egypt, showing the wide trading contacts of the Minoans. The extremely fine palace pottery called Kamares ware, and the Late Minoan all-over patterned "Marine style" are the high points of the Minoan pottery tradition.

Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Crete

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