Carinate

This article is about the pottery shape. For the group in bird taxonomy, see Carinatae. For the morphological term, see Glossary of botanical terms § keel.

Carinate is a shape in pottery, glassware and artistic design usually applied to amphorae or vases. The shape is defined by the joining of a rounded base to the sides of an inward sloping vessel. This design is seen in ancient cultures such as recovered in archaeological digs in such sites as the palace of Knossos in Minoan Crete. An alternative adjectival form of this design is carinated.

Argaric carinated vessel (Bronze Age)

See also

• Fluting

References

• Emmanuel Cooper. 2000. Ten Thousand Years of Pottery, fourth edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 0-8122-3554-1, ISBN 978-0-8122-3554-8, 352 pages
• C. Michael Hogan. 2007. Knossos fieldnotes, The Modern Antiquarian, ed. J. Cope