¹ I thank the Managing Committee of the British School at Athens for allowing publication of material from the excavations at Palaikastro. This article is derived from my bachelor's thesis written at Columbia University under the direction of J. A. MacGillivray. The present version was produced at the University of California at Los Angeles under the supervision of S. P. Morris. I am very grateful to Profs. MacGillivray and Morris for their inspiration and their patience. I am also indebted to O. Bernini and A. Fung for their assistance with the drawings. Special abbreviations:

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PK 1986 to 1988, 1990, 1991 = ‘Excavations at Palaikastro, 1986’, BSA 82 (1987), 135–54; ‘… 1987’, BSA 83 (1988), 259–82; ‘… 1988’, BSA 84 (1989), 417–45; ‘… 1990’, BSA 86 (1991), 121–47; ‘… 1991’, BSA 87 (1992), 121–52

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⁸ For preliminary reports on this deposit see PK 1986, 142; PK 1987, 261; PK 1988, 419–20.

⁹ PK 1986, 150–1, pl. 24 c–e.

¹⁰ PK 1988, 423, fig. 5.

¹¹ PK 1990, 135, fig. 12.

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¹⁹ Kommos 137.

²⁰ Warren (n. 6).

²¹ Warren (n. 6), 332.

²² LMP pl. 78 a. Dawkins (n. 14), fig. 3.

²³ Betancourt (n. 15), 381–7.

²⁴ Kommos fig. 67. 1969.

²⁵ LMP pl. 78 a.

²⁶ Betancourt and Silverman, cat. no. 567.

²⁷ PKU, pl. 15 d; 1990, fig. 14; PK 1991, fig. 15. 3.

²⁸ PKU, pl. 15 d.

²⁹ Kommos cat. no. 2032.

³⁰ Hawes, H. Boyd, Williams, B. E., Seager, R. B., and Hall, E. H., Gournia, Vasiliki and Other Prehistoric Sites on the Isthmus of Hierapetra, Crete (Philadelphia, 1908), pl. 8. 22, 23.Google Scholar

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³³ LMP pl. 78 c.

³⁴ Betancourt and Silverman, cat. nos. 568, 569, 614, 622.

³⁵ Kommos cat. nos. 2009, 2020, 2024, 2026, 2031, 2033, 2035.

³⁶ D'Agata, A. L., ‘Some MM III B/LM I A pottery from Haghia Triada’, in Laffineur, R. (ed.), Transition: le monde égéen du bronze moyen au bronze récent (Aegaeum, 3; 1989)Google Scholar, pls 21 e, 22 ƒ.

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⁴¹ Betancourt et al. (n. 19), 97, fig. 2.

⁴² Warren (n. 6), fig. 10, l.

⁴³ LMP pl. 77 d; Dawkins (n. 14), fig. 15.

⁴⁴ Boyd Hawes et al. (n. 30), pl. 9. 3.

⁴⁵ Betancourt and Silverman, fig. 19. 576.

⁴⁶ LMP pls 77 c, 78 b.

⁴⁷ Pelon, pl. 14. 5.

⁴⁸ MUM pls 133 a, 134 b, 139 b, 146 b.

⁴⁹ PK 1991, fig. 15. 6; there is also an example with complete profile in a photograph from the 1902–6 excavations (now in the Ashmolean Museum).