Terracotta bathtub
Bañera de terracota
- Date
- c. 1700 BCE · confidence medium
- Place
- Knossos, Crete, Greece
- Credited to
- Minoan civilisation
- Field
- Tools
What it is
An individual bathtub of fired clay, trough-shaped, placed in the bathing rooms of Minoan palaces. It is among the first vessels designed solely for bathing at home.
Similar examples are also found at Akrotiri and other Aegean sites; use was confined to the elite, not widespread.
What it led to
- bathrooms in palaces and wealthy houses of the Aegean
- tiled and lead tubs in the Greek and Roman world
- forerunner of the modern household bath