1 MS I. BSA 67 (1972) ‘A LM IB Marine Style Stirrup Jar’, illustrating a vase, probably from Pseira, found by the author in sherds in a box in HM apotheke.
MS II. BSA 69 (1974) ‘A Note on the LM IB Marine Style at Knossos’. The quantity of unpublished MS sherds from the palace and its environs is discussed in support of the theory that Knossos was the centre of production.
MS III. BSA 69 (1974) ‘A Later Development in the LM IB Marine Style’. Octopus and argonaut Types A, B, and C are defined. It is suggested that Type C developed from Types A and B and belonged to a later stage of LM IB, supported by their presence in deposits at Kastri containing the Alternating Style, thought by the excavator to belong to a late stage of LM IB, when the full MS was no longer in circulation Kythera 296. It is shown that Type C had already appeared while full MS was still in vogue, reference being made to its appearance on a conical rhyton from Palaikastro set against a crowded marine background, PK 11. A parallel for the PK 11 octopus, so close that it is probably by the same hand, appears on a stirrup-jar, Phylakopi 30, where many of these small octopuses are crowded together against the open background, which is a criterion of the late stage of LM IB and the Alternating Style. The recent excavations at Archanes, where MS motifs of Type C have been found in alternation on bell cups together with vases in full MS in typical LM IB deposits (communication from Dr. J. Sakellarakis) confirm that Type C, while being a stylistic development, had already appeared in Crete in the lifetime of the full MS.
MS IV. AAA 9 (1976) ‘A LM IB Marine Style Rhyton from Pseira’. An unpublished MS vase from HM is presented; two types of pear rhyton are noted, those with pointed and those with rounded base, the former being the more frequent. A MS example with rounded base comes from Trochali.
MS V. AJA 81 (1977) ‘Attributions in the LM IB Marine Style’. P. Betancourt's attribution of eleven vases to the ‘Polyp Workshop’ on the basis of background decoration is refuted and the vases of his groupings A, C, D are reassigned to five different groupings on the basis of the main motifs.
MS VI. BSA 73 (1978) ‘Provenance Studies of the LM IB/LH IIA Marine Style’ with R. E. Jones and J. F. Cherry. Reference should be made to this article for the definitions of the MS motifs (145, 147–9). The statistical analysis in Tables I–III by motif, site, and shape has not been brought up to date, as so much recently excavated material is still under study. Clay analysis by OES and interpretation of the data by multivariate methods of fifty-four MS pieces, mostly from the Mainland and the islands, shows that Mainland MS does not have the same provenance as Knossian, but rather was manufactured in the Argolid and Corinthia and possibly at Thebes and Athens, while, except in the case of Aegina, that from the islands was not manufactured locally.
MS VII. BCH Supplementary Volume (in press). ‘Ritual Associations for LM IB Marine Style Vases’ (Proceedings of the French School Colloquium, Athens 1983). Although MS vases do come from secular contexts, a large number also come from ritual contexts suggesting that MS vases should be considered as part of cult equipment. Apart from three published contexts (Knossos SME, Pyrgos, and Zakros), eleven further contexts are taken into account and the presence of marine motifs on ritual objects in other media is briefly examined.
Other recent articles on MS include: Betancourt, P. P., ‘The Polyp Workshop: a Stylistic Group from LMIB’, AJA 77 (1973) 333–4CrossRefGoogle Scholar, ‘Marine Life Pottery from the Aegean’, Archaeology 30 (1977) 38–43, ‘Further Observations on the Marine Style’, AJA 81 (1977) 561; Niemeier, W. D., ‘The Master of the Gournia Octopus Stirrup-Jar and a LM I Pottery Workshop at Gournia exporting to Thera’, Temple University Aegean Symposium 4 (1979) 18–26.Google Scholar
