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© Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega
Omeka ID 1227
Pla de les Tenalles
Protohistory and Iberian world

lid with button-shaped handle

MCUT 3067

Object type
lid (cover)
Production date
-200
Fabric
common Iberian pottery
Museum
Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega
Culture
Protohistory and Iberian world
Discovery location
Pla de les Tenalles
Materials
pottery
Township
Granyanella (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Lleida, La Segarra)
Technique
handmade
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
45 x 80 mm
Description
Small lid, with straight walls, rather rounded lip, and solid button-shaped horizontal handle with a slight depression in the centre. The whole surface is polished, inside and out. All the inner face and the half the outer are blackened, perhaps by continuous contact with the smoke and fire of a hearth. It is surely a piece of kitchenware, a complement intended to cover the pots when they cook food. Its dimensions perfectly match the diameter of the mouth of various pots from this site, such as Pot Number 6 (MCUT 3071). Although the lids would not be in direct contact with the fire, it is still advisable to make them by hand with a coarse fabric better suited to withstand high temperatures. Lids of this model are very common in all the northern Iberian territories, from the Languedoc to Castellón. Further south they disappear as the ceramic kitchenware is also coarse but always made on the wheel. This piece comes from the Iberian village of Pla de les Tenalles de la Mora, within the upper part of House 3 in a context that probably belongs to the time of destruction of the settlement, dated to around 200 BC.

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