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A Lucullean feast

Main aspect of the moveable fireplace
Pyrauno (brazier)

Pyrauno was a sort of portable cooking hearth, in which charcoal was placed. The vessel survives in fragments and has been reunited from the recovered pieces. It consists of an almost circular tray with a scaled fringe and an opening on both sides. The opening is placed at the center and ends on a high cylindrical base decorated with a relief ring. On half of the circular tray is supported a small semicircular part with an opening that supported the cooking vessel. The charcoal was placed inside the tray.

Exhibit Features
Date: Hellenistic period, end of 2nd c. B.C.- 1st c. B.C.
Place of discovery: Mytilini, Makris Gialos
Dimensions: length: 0,045 m, height: 0,185 m
Material: Clay
Inventory number: 18236
Copyright: Hellenic Ministry of Culture
 
 
 
  Suggestive Bibliography
 
Αρχοντίδου Α. & Αχειλάρά Λ. κ.α., Ένα Λουκούλειο Γεύμα - Φεβρουάριος 2001 - Μάρτιος 2002, Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Μυτιλήνης, Περιοδική Έκθεση, 2002, 39-42