Rare stone frying pan from chlorite schist – Aspects of Beauty

From Cyclades, probably from the island of Naxos. Early Cycladic II, 2800-2300 BC.
(ΕΑΜ/NΑΜ Π 20935)

Its sophisticated and elaborated decoration probably renders in an abstracted manner the foaming sea, which is full of waves, hazards and challenges, maybe the Aegean Sea, that surrounds the Cyclades.