The following abbreviations are used:

Chamber Tombs: A.J.B. Wace, Chamber Tombs at Mycenae, Archaeologia LXXXII.

Fimmen: D. Fimmen, Die Kretisch-Mykenische Kultur.

Furumark, MycPot: A. Furumark, The Mycenaean Pottery. ‘Furumark’ followed by a number refers to his catalogue of vessel types in MycPot 583–643. Furumark, Chronology: A. Furumark, The Chronology of Mycenaean Pottery.

Graef: B. Graef, Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen, Heft I.

Korakou: C. W. Blegen, Korakou.

Mycenae: A. J. B. Wace, Mycenae, An Archaeological History and Guide.

Papavasileiou: G. A. Papavasileiou, Πεπὶ τῶν Εὺβοὶα̣ ἀρχαὶων τὰφων

Persson, New Tombs: A. W. Persson, New Tombs at Dendra near Midea.

Prosymna: C. W. Blegen, Prosymna.

Schachtgräber: G. Karo, Die Schachtgräber von Mykenai.

Sieveking and Hackl: J. Sieveking and R. Hackl, Die königliche Vasensammlung zu München, Band I.

¹ Papavasileiou excavated and published (in Περὶ τῶν ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ ἀρχαίων τἀφων (1910), 21 ff.) the following tombs (L.H.) in Euboea. (i) At Velousia, near Aliverion, one tholos tomb containing sherds, a button, and bones. (ii) At Enoria, near Kimi, one tholos tomb already looted and the contents lost. (iii) At Katakolou, near Aliverion, one tholos tomb containing a L.H. III kylix and sherds. (iv) At Oxylithos, near Kimi, one tholos tomb containing two piriform jars, five alabastra, one jug, one cup, a sealstone, beads of cornelian glass and rock crystal, twenty-six buttons, a piece of lead, and a knife. L.H. III. The finds are in the museum at Khalkis, Inv. nos. 387–400. There was no trace left of the Oxylithos tomb in 1939; that at Katakolou is in a very good state of preservation (1950). (v) At Trypa, near Khalkis, two chamber tombs containing the finds listed in p. 49 of my article. (vi) Papavasileiou reported (in PAE 1909, 207) a chamber tomb at Livadia, near Aliverion, containing sherds and a button, (vii) He excavated, but did not publish, eighteen more tombs at Trypa and Vromousa. The finds from these tombs have been in the museum at Khalkis since 1911 and are now published by me. I could find no useful trace of the Trypa and Vromousa tombs in 1939.

Fimmen and Furumark both refer to the unpublished pottery in Khalkis from Trypa and Vromousa (the pottery now published by me) in their books listed among my abbreviations above. Fimmen, 6, gives a list of prehistoric finds from Euboea; in 140, note 2, he mentions the rhyton 401; 91, fig. 77 is the alabastron 438 A′. Furumark, MycPot 583–643, mentions 401, 437, 438 A′, 468, 491, 517, 539.

^1a Inserted in brackets are the Inventory numbers (see below) and other comment.

² I.e. the tombs on Mantalou property.

³ When the site was called ‘near Vromousa’.

⁴ Not identified.

⁵ Some of the finds, including the more important vases, are listed in AA 1911, 122.

⁶ So far the Middle Helladic cemetery has not been located. There is an Early Bronze Age cemetery near Khalkis at Manika, about one hour's walk north of Khalkis on a spit of land jutting into the sea, where Papavasileiou excavated a series of tombs containing a large proportion of Early Cycladic objects (Papavasileiou, 1–20). On this flat unprotected site Early and Middle Helladic sherds have been found. The change of site from the seashore to the broken hilly land behind Khalkis suggests a change of living conditions or a change of population. The Middle Helladic sherds from Trypa and Vromousa are specifically mainland in character (i.e. Grey or Yellow Minyan).

^6a In the discussion here following and in the catalogue the numbers given are those of the Khalkis Museum Inventory. Cf. p. 61, n. 15 below.

⁷ Perhaps the figure-of-eight shield sherd (411) is from the same one.

⁸ On the technique of Late Helladic pottery cf. Prosymna, 408 f.; Chamber Tombs, 147, 156, 165; Furumark, MycPot 11 ff.; BSA XLII. 9 ff.

⁹ Thanks to the kindness of Mr. I. Threpsiades, Ephor in Thebes, I was able to study the Thebes material in detail.

¹⁰ The wheel used in L.H. III seems to have been faster than in L.H. I and II, but at Khalkis there are examples of fine thin pottery at all stages, e.g. 493 (L.H. I).

¹¹ No note.

¹² Bands of paint in horizontal arrangement are so common a feature of all Late Helladic pottery that it would be more to the point to list pots without any. I have therefore not included bands, stripes, or lines in horizontal arrangement, unless they form the only decoration of a pot.

¹³ ‘The Kylix … is almost as common a Mycenaean type as the stirrup-jar’ (BSA XLII 24).

¹⁴ On the breaking of kylikes at the closing of the tomb doorway, see Chamber Tombs, 144; Prosymna, 238.

^14a Listed in the Inventory ‘from Oxylithos’, but described by Papavasileion in his account of the tholos tomb at Katakolou (Papavasileiou, 39 and fig. 33).

^14b Note the following L.H. tombs and other material in Euboea. In 1939 at Moni Mantzari near Oxylithos there was a looted chamber tomb. There were two L.H. IIIA pots from this tomb in the school at Oxylithos. In 1940 at Androniani near Kimi, a tomb, said to be a shaft grave, was opened. Two swords with gold studs, a spearhead, a saw and sherds of L.H. IIIA pottery were brought to the museum at Khalkis. L.H. sherds and other objects have also been found at the following places in Euboea, taking the island from north to south: Oreoi, Athinai, Dhiades, Likhas Kastri, Pili, Politika, Manika, Vathia, Dhistos, Filagra.

¹⁵ The Catalogue numbers are those of the Khalkis Museum Inventory. The numbering of the tombs and finds in the Catalogue agrees with the numbers attached to the finds in the cases and with the numbers in the Inventory. In the Inventory Greek numerals were used to list under one number finds of the same type from one tomb (e.g. 402 Α′–Ε′), or objects found together (e.g. 449 Α′–Γ′). Reference to the finds are given immediately after the description. The Furumark reference is to the Catalogue of vessel types in his MycPot 583–643, with his dating in brackets. Where possible, references to pottery in Thebes give the page reference in ADelt III (1917), and AE 1910, as well as the Museum Inventory numbers which are omitted from those publications.

Objects other than pottery, including terracottas, are listed numerically in the catalogue and are described in Section V. Line drawings of patterns are given in the text where they are not clear enough in the plates.

¹⁶ Listed as Cretan, but compare a similar rhyton from Tomb 517 at Mycenae (Chamber Tombs, pl. I, no. 10).

¹⁷ Palaikastro, BMC Vases I, pt. 1, A650Google Scholar, and six examples in BSA Suppl. I (1923), 52 f. (one of these is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, CVA 2, pl. III 31); Mochlos, , AJA 1909, 288, fig. 12Google Scholar; Gournia, Boyd-Hawes, Gournia, pl. I 2; Pseira, Seager, Pseira, figs. 8 and 10.

¹⁸ E.g. Mainland: Mycenae, , BSA XXV, pls. XLV e, L aGoogle Scholar; Kakovatos, , AM XXXIV (1909), pl. XXIV 6Google Scholar; Thebes (filling ornament), no. 432, ADelt III (1917), fig. 145. Islands: Melos, , BSA XVII, pl. XI, 18Google Scholar; CVA Cambridge 2, pl. II 40; Crete, Palaikastro, BSA Suppl. I (1923), fig. 40; Tylissos, PM IV, fig. 220; Knossos, PM IV, figs. 221 and 222.

¹⁹ In this respect cf. Welter Aegina 22–23.

²⁰ Mycenae, Chamber Tombs, pl. XXXIX, no. 19; Eleusis, Mylonas, Προϊστορικὴ Ἐλευσίς, fig. 104, no. 365 (the stripes can just be seen); Malthi, Valmin, Swedish Messenia Expedition, pl. XIX, no. 28.

²¹ Klio XXXII 2, 146, and cf. Persson, New Tombs, 70.

²² 450 Β′, 553 Α′; cf. also sherds from Vromousa I (423).

²³ Sieveking and Hackl, no. 36.

²⁴ BMC Vases I, i, A 813, and Stubbings, Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant, 10.

²⁵ ADelt III (1917), 96, not illustrated.

²⁶ Thebes 472 Kolonaki T. 26; 502 ibid., T.14, no. 6; 529 Ismenion T. 3, no. 11; 568 ibid., T. 5, no. 1; 569 ibid., T. 5, no. 2 (not illustrated in ADelt III); cf. also Attica, , AJA XLIII 582, fig. 11Google Scholar; Argive Heraion, Prosymna, figs. 260, no. 627, 431 no. 159; Argos, , BMC Vases I, i, A 1041Google Scholar; Dendra, Persson, New Tombs, fig. 104 no. 1a, b; Cyprus, BMC Vases I, ii, C 493; Crete, Evans, Tomb of the Double Axes, fig. 93; Katsaba, , Crete, , CVA Copenhagen I, pl. 33, 16.Google Scholar

²⁷ Unless otherwise described, throughout the catalogue these are loop-handles, circular in section.

²⁸ Cf. a two-handled jug in Thebes; ADelt III (1917), fig. 120, 2.

²⁹ For examples from Dendra, cf. Persson, New Tombs, fig. 47, 2, 3; fig. 110, 5.

³⁰ Inside 409 are sherds of two kylikes, one plain, one covered with streaky paint; see 527 (bowl only), 411, 455, 487, 539.

³¹ There are also Hellenistic, Turkish and modern sherds. It is assumed that the sherds of earlier and later date than the general run of finds come from the fill and percolation of earth in the excavated reas. The Inventory says they come ὰπὸ τὰ χὼματα

³² Ialysos, Ann VI–VII, fig. 134.

³³ Thebes: 428 (Kolonaki, T.26, no. 16) 441 (ibid. no. 19); 442 (ibid. no. 18); 459 (Hagia Anna T. 2, no. 17); 462 (ibid. no. 14; AE 1910, figs. 17γ, 18β); 503 (Kolonaki T. 14, no. 11); 521 (ibid. T. 9, no. 9, ADelt III (1917), fig. 107); 531 (Ismenion T.3); 549 (ibid. T. 2, no. 7). Mycenae: Chamber Tombs, pl. XXVII, nos. 2,3. Argive Heraion: Prosymna, fig. 687, no. 1167; fig. 207, no. 1168; sherds from the Aspis, BMC Vases I i, A 797. Asine: Asine. Results of the Swedish Excavations, fig. 270, nos. 4–7. Dendra: Persson, New Tombs 26, no. 9. Athens: Graef I, pl. 3, no. 72a.

³⁴ They have concentric circles on the base.

³⁵ Persson, New Tombs, fig. 34, 3a–b.

³⁶ Thebes 433 (Kolonaki, T. 26, no. 28), not illustrated in ADelt III (1917), 201. It has a wheel on the base.

³⁷ Chamber Tombs, pls. XXXIII, no. 13, XXXIV, no. 14, XL, nos. 17, 18.

³⁸ Thebes, , AE 1910, 225 and figs. 17α, 18δ.Google ScholarProsymna, fig. 104, no. 397, similar shape and design; fig. 137, similar shape only.

³⁹ AM XIV, pls. IX 1, 6; X 1, 2, 5, 6. For other examples cf. Prosymna, 416, Furumark 87, and for examples from Egypt see Klio XXXII 145.

⁴⁰ Thebes 473 (ADelt III (1917), fig. 118, 2), 565 (ADelt III (1917), fig. 71).

⁴¹ Ann VI–VII, fig. 112.

⁴² Also Hellenistic.

⁴³ Two in Thebes (576, 577, ADelt III (1917), 135). Cf. also Prosymna 395.

⁴⁴ 440 is almost identical.

⁴⁵ ADelt III (1917), fig. 120, 3; and Thebes 544, not illustrated.

⁴⁶ Prosymna, fig. 558, no. 766. See Stubbings, Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant, pls. XV 3, XVII 5, XVIII 2, for examples from Ras Shamra, Tell Abu Hawam and Sedment.

⁴⁷ Most of the small finds are listed in the Inventory under one number. I have added numbers in brackets, where necessary, for ease of classification.

⁴⁸ Cf. Hesperia IX 281, fig. 19, with vertical handles.

⁴⁹ PM IV 275–6, figs. 208–9.

⁵⁰ Cf. also two Argive imports at Malthi, Valmin, Swedish Messenia Expedition, pl. XX 32, 33. In Thebes the pattern is generally combined with other designs, cf. Thebes 873, 456 (AE 1910, 221 and pl. X 1).

⁵¹ E.g. at Mycenae, prehistoric cemetery, Mycenae, fig. 70a; on a spouted jug with basket handle in Thebes, Ismenion T. 5 (ADelt III (1917), fig. 61b), and on a deep ‘tea-cup’; cf. also a sherd from Eutresis (Goldman, Eutresis, fig. 260, 6); and Korakou, fig. 63, 2.

⁵² 456–458 in the inventory are Protogeometric finds from Arethusa.

⁵³ This number is conjectural as none is marked on this or any of the seven vases following 460 Λ′, but they are all listed together in the Inventory.

⁵⁴ With this group belong also several fragments of Protogeometric.

⁵⁵ Also Geometric, Hellenistic grey ware and ‘Modern’.

⁵⁶ Also one Protogeometric sherd painted inside, concentric circles outside.

⁵⁷ Geometric: sherds of a bowl, decorated with vertical stripes and added white. Indeterminate: fragments of a cooking pot similar in fabric to 549, not wheel made, with horizontal lug. Coarse red sherds, not wheel made.

⁵⁸ Protogeometric, Geometric and Hellenistic.

^58a See Stubbings, Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant, 56, and pl. XIV 1.

⁵⁹ Khalkis Inventory No. 746 is a fine spearhead, L. 0·35, of the type illustrated in Prosymna, fig. 510, no. 3. It was found at Pili near Mantoudi. In May 1940 a sword was brought to the museum at Khalkis from a newly discovered Mycenaean tomb at Androniani, near Kimi.

⁶⁰ Cf. Montelius, , La Grèce préclassique, I, pl. 15, 20.Google Scholar