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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
In BSA 74 (1979) 1–80, an account was given of MM III and LM I buildings and their contents uncovered in 1975 at Knossos during a rescue excavation undertaken by the British School, in the northern half of the Staphylakis field, on the south-east flank of the acropolis (Site Plan, Fig. 1). In that account reference was made (p. 4) to the discovery of other ancient features within the heavily ploughed area. The more important of these finds are briefly described in what follows, to complete the summary publication of the results of the 1975 operation.
Full details of the circumstances in which this investigation was undertaken are given in BSA 74, together with acknowledgements to all those who assisted the authors on the site and in the preparation of the material for publication. A brief account of the whole excavation appeared in AR 1976–77.
Acknowledgements. It has been of great value to have the collaboration of Mr. Peter Callaghan for the study of the Hellenistic pottery from Trial IX, and for advice on the pottery from the early Roman house. The authors are grateful to Mr. A. J. S. Spawforth for his study of the dipinto inscription on the wine amphora V.307 (Appendix A) and to Miss Shelagh Wall for her identification of shells from the Minoan building complex (Appendix B). The general account has been written by H. W. Catling. D. Smyth drew the final versions of his field plans, and E. A. Catling has been responsible for drawing the pottery and other objects (with the exception of the Hellenistic pottery from Trial IX, drawn by P. Callaghan). Mr. Petros Petrakis M.B.E. repaired the pottery from the Roman house. Photographs were taken by H. W. Catling.
Abbreviations. In addition to the familiar abbreviations for Minoan periods the following are used: G = Geometric. O = Orientalizing. A = Archaic. C = Classical. H = Hellenistic. R = Roman. E, M, and L = Early, Middle, and Late.
Bibliographical abbreviation
KDS = Coldstream, J. N. and others, Knossos: The Sanctuary of Demeter (London, 1973)Google Scholar
1 For this location see BSA 74, 3–4, figs. 2 and 3.
2 M.S.F. Hood is currently preparing a study and complete inventory of Knossian Minoan masons' marks. See PM Index Volume s.v. Masons' Marks. For wider reference Shaw, J., Minoan Architecture: Materials and Techniques = Annuario 49 (1971) 109–11.Google Scholar See especially Sakellarakis, J., ‘Mason's Marks from Arkhanes’ in Europa: Festschrift für Ernst Grumach (Berlin, 1967) 277–88.Google Scholar
3 Stone Vases 60–2.
4 BSA 74, 60, fig. 42:21.
5 JHS 55 (1935) 168; Knossos Survey (1st Edn) no. 76 in Grid Square D6.
6 Knossos Survey no. 103, Grid D7.
7 KDS 73, no. 106b and pl. 47.
8 Published BSA 74, 67 (Seal 2), fig. 45 and pl. 14c.
9 For this shape see Callaghan, in BSA 73 (1978) 6–8.Google Scholar
10 Ibid. 11–15.
11 Unfortunately, no note was made of the material. The stone was left in situ when the test was refilled.
12 BSA 74, 72–8.
13 BSA 45, 164–92.
14 Knossos Survey.
15 Knossos Survey.
16 BSA 52, 224–40.
17 Knossos Survey.
18 BSA 73, 1–30.
19 AR 1977–79 61, figs. 105–6.
20 Trans. Am. Phil. Assoc. 106 (1976) 313–30.
21 Strabo, 10, 4, 7.
22 At both the hero-shrine and in the wine-press area the later Hellenistic occupation is followed by a hiatus in the settlement remains.
23 The writer has not seen the inscription himself. The photographs are H. W. Catling's; the drawing was made by Miss Zillah Pettit.
