Acknowledgements. I am most grateful to the authorities of the Archaeological Museum, Florence, for permission to publish the potsherd in their collection and for providing a photograph of it. I also wish to thank Professor P.E. Pecorella for his assistance, Miss P. Lulof for technical observations and the profile drawing, and Dr H.W. Catling and especially Dr E.S. Sherratt for comments upon the fragment.

Abbreviation in addition to those in standard use:

MPVP = E. Vermeule and V. Karageorghis

Mycenaean Pictorial vase Painting (1982).

¹ Langdon, S., ‘The Return of the Horse-Leader’, AJA 93 (1989) 185–201.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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³ Mountjoy, op. cit. (n. 2) figs. 142, 159 (Furumark's shape 281).

⁴ See also a.o. Courtois, J.-C. in Acts of the International Archaeological Symposium ‘The Mycenaeans in the Eastern Mediterranean’ (Nicosia 1973) 155–61Google Scholar; Courtois, J.-C. and Courtois, L. in Ugaritica VII (1978) 346f. and fig. 54:2, A–CGoogle Scholar; MPVP XIII.28.

⁵ MPVP IV.18 (with bibl.). A 13th cent. B.C. larnax from Tanagra shows two men, apparently fighting a duel, between two antithetic Dual-chariot groups; see Spyropoulos, T.G., PAE 1969, 14f. and pl. 13:aGoogle Scholar; Crouwel, J.H., Chariots and Other Means of Land Transport in Bronze Age Greece. Alllard Pierson Series 3 (1981) 139 no. L 2.Google Scholar

⁶ A.o. MPVP XI.14, 16, 19.1–20, 24, 25, cf. 37.

⁷ Cf. a krater fragment from Mycenae where a helmeted man on foot is holding not the reins but two separate lead ropes of a chariot team, MPVP IX.8 (the given date – LH IIIB – may well have to be corrected to LH IIIC Middle).

⁸ BSA 25 (1921–23) pl. XXVII; Rodenwaldt, G., Der Fries des Megarons von Mykenai (1921)Google Scholar no. 2, cf. no. 4. MPVP XI.7–8.

⁹ MPVP X.27.

¹⁰ See also MPVP XI.13–14, 21, XII.42.

¹¹ Fish appear on fragments of another vase from the site, probably by the same painter, see Courtois and Courtois, op. cit. (n. 4) fig. 44:1. cf. 2; MPVP XIII.29; Langdon, op. cit. (n. 1) figs. 5, 8, cf. also fig. 7.

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¹⁴ Zervoudaki, E., ADelt 26 B2 (1971) 550f.Google Scholar with pl. 558.

¹⁵ The fabric cannot readily be grouped with that of the decorated pottery of LH IIIA–IIIB found in the Argolid.

¹⁶ For the existence of such models at this time, see Langdon, op. cit. (n. 1) 197f., 200f.; also Benson, J.L., Horse, Bird and Man (1970) 114–23Google Scholar; Hurwit, J.M., The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100–480 B.C. (1985) 68f.Google Scholar

¹⁷ Cf. Langdon, op. cit. (n. 1) 197f.; also Carter, J.M., BSA 67 (1972) especially 28–31 (horse)Google Scholar; Hurwit, op. cit. (n. 16) 53–70; Muscarella, O.W., The Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University 9 (1977) 43–45.Google Scholar