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Thorikos Mine no. 3: the Mycenaean Pottery1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

P. A. Mountjoy
P. A. Mountjoy
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British School at Athens
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Abstract

The Transitional LH III B2/C early pottery from Thorikos mine No. 3 is of particular importance for the definition of this as yet little-known phase. It is also of interest for its context. The assemblage is unusual; its nature implies a specific function rather than the debris of normal settlement. It is suggested that it may have resulted from mining activity.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 90 , November 1995 , pp. 195 - 227
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1995

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References

2 See Spitaels, P., MIGRA 5, 83–96Google Scholar, and Thorikos, viii. 151–74, for a fuller account of the excavation.

3 Hesp. 2 (1933), 330–417. For the suggestion that this may not be a closed deposit see Rutter 1981, 306–07.

4 Tiryns, vi. 127–94.

5 Rutter 1981, 307. In his overview of LH III C pottery Rutter equates Korakou phase 4 with LH III C phase 1 LH III C Pottery, passim.

6 I thank Dr H. Catling for showing me his unpublished material.

7 The complete deposit will be published by J. Rutter.

8 Hesp. 2 (1933), 367, fig. 39 a, b.

9 Ibid. 368–70, figs. 40–3.

10 Ibid. 371, fig. 44.

11 Ibid. 372, fig. 45.

12 Mee, C. B., Rhodes in the Bronze Age (Warminster, 1982), pl. 38. 5.Google Scholar

13 (n. 4), 127–94.

14 AA (1981), 204–5.

15 (n. 4), pls 63. 2; 68. 6 A 13/2, 11–16; 69. 1 H 17 a.

16 Ibid. pls 63. 1; 68. 1, 2.

17 Ibid. pl. 65. 5.

18 Ibid. pls 65. 2; 73. 1, 2.

19 Ibid. pl. 62. 1, 2.

20 Ibid. pl. 64. 2, 3, 1.

21 Ibid. pl. 70. 2, 3 A 10.

22 Ibid. pl. 68. 3, 5,

23 (n. 14), fig. 54. 4, 5.

24 (n. 4), pls 63. 3, 4, 5; 68. 3, 5.

25 Ibid. pls 69. 3, 5; 70. 1 A 13/6.

26 Ibid. 183, fig. 16, pl. 69. 4.

27 (n. 14), 201, fig. 54. 10, 11.

28 Rutter 1981, 134–316.

29 Phase 1 in LH III C Pottery, 1–2.

30 Ibid. 1–2.

31 Thorikos, i, figs. 19–20.

32 MG 5, 97–103.

33 Graef, B., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis Zu Athen, i (Berlin, 1909), pl. 4. 95.Google Scholar

34 The first colour described always refers to clay. All measurements are in centimetres.

35 Compare with MDP fig. 167.

36 For example Perati, T. 51.485, pl. 71 c.

37 Benzi 1975, Kopreza no. 238, Porto Raphti nos. 532–3.

38 Perati, T. 35.404, pl. 100 a, T. 147.1114, pl. 35 b and MDP fig. 174.

39 Perati, amphoriskos T. 154.1198, pl. 13 b, piriform jar T. 97.742, pl. 63 a, alabastron T. 147.1093, pl. 35 b.

40 MDP fig. 152. 2 with ridge, fig. 152. 1 without ridge.

41 Aigina iv. 1, pl. 28. 252–26.

42 AR (1991–2), 13, fig.

43 MDP figs. 168, 180. 3.

44 (n. 3). 370, fig. 43 b.

45 Perati, T. 78.699, pl. 18 a, T. 151.1160, pl. 43 d.

46 MDP fig. 154. 6–7.

47 See an example from Paros, Koehl, R., ‘Observations on a deposit of LH III C pottery from Koukounaries acropolis on Paros’, in MacGillivray, J. A. and Barber, R. L. N. (eds), The Prehistoric Cyclades (Edinburgh, 1984), 196, fig. 6 ƒGoogle Scholar.

48 Compare MDP, LH III B1 fig. 135. 2 with LH III B Middle, fig. 134 and LH III C, fig. 218.

49 (n. 4), 183, fig. 16 A 8.

50 I thank Dr H. Catling for showing me his unpublished material.

51 BSA 85 (1990), 257, fig. 13.

52 BSA 66 (1971), 335, fig 1. 2.

53 (n. 4), pl. 69 A 5, A 7, A 8.

54 Archaeology of Cult, 162, fig. 5. 7. 176.

55 Ibid. 197, fig. 5. 24. 395.

56 For example Benzi 1975, pls 11–12. 215, 12. 217, with flower on one side and panel on the back, and pl. 12. 219, with a different panel on each side.

57 Higgins, R., Minoan and Mycenaean Art (London, 1967)Google Scholar, fig. 132.

58 Benzi 1975, pls 4. 99; 12. 215; 19. 282.

59 Archaeology of Cult, 208, fig. 5. 30. 551.

60 (n. 4), 183, fig. 16, pl. 69. 4.

61 Perati, T. S1.83, pls 3 c, 136. 115.

62 MP 635. A vase from Lefkandi (MDP fig. 194) has handles from rim to belly instead of from below the rim.

63 (n. 12), pl. 38. 5.

64 Perati, pl. 136. 115.

65 Hesp. 8 (1939), 358, fig. 33 e.

66 Perati, T. 157.1249, ibid., vol. B, 168 fig. 47. 1249.

67 Mylonas, G., Ayios Kosmas: An Early Bronze Age Settlement in Attica (Princeton, 1959), fig. 139. 68.Google Scholar

68 MDP 133.

69 (n. 3), 369, fig. 42 a–b.

70 MDP, fig. 165. 1.

71 Perati T. 27.320, pl. 6 a.

72 Compare with the rim of a LH III C Late hydria from the agora at Athens, Smithson, E., ‘The prehistoric Klepsydra: some notes’, in Hesp. Suppl. 20 (Princeton, 1982), pl. 22Google Scholarb. G4.

73 MDP 156.

74 See for example (n. 72), pl. 22 b.

75 MDP fig. 244. 1–2.

76 (n. 52), 339, fig. 4. 1–3.

77 Perati, T. 156.1240, pl. 10 a.

78 Hesp. 8 (1939), 370, fig. 49 b.

79 See BSA 64 (1969), 281, for a definition of the wares.

80 Compare with BSA 71 (1976), 99, fig. 12. 136–42.

81 Ibid. 111; 11 dippers were found in a deposit of around 8,000 unpainted sherds. See also (n. 79), 285.

82 (n. 3), 371, fig. 44 c; (n. 4), pl. 64. 6.

83 (n. 80), 99, fig. 12. 145–7.

84 (n. 4), 185, fig. 17 A 12 unpainted, 183, fig. 16 A 7 decorated.

85 177 cannot be fully restored on paper since no rim diameter can be obtained. So little of the spout is extant it is not possible to tell whether it was a bridge or a trough spout.

86 Hesp. 44 (1975), pl. 34 d.