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Excavations at Palaikastro. II: § 8.—The Pottery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

R. M. Dawkins
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§1.—A very great quantity of pottery has been found in the two seasons' work at Palaikastro. It will give an idea of the amount to say that in the season of 1903 about 650 vases were found more or less complete, of which 160 come from the cemeteries and the rest from the houses. In addition the Roussolakkos site yielded great quantities of fragments. From fifty to eighty baskets full were brought in daily. All the sherds were washed, a record kept of their nature, and the more interesting kept as samples. The rest were piled in labelled heaps for future reference or search.

In giving an account of this pottery it will be best to follow as far as possible a chronological order in dealing with the various fabrics. Both in this and in other ways, Dr Mackenzie's article, ‘The Pottery of Knossos,’ J.H.S. xxiii, p. 157, which has been followed here as closely as possible, has cleared the way very much. The article on the ‘Pottery from Zakro,’ J.H.S. xxiii, p. 248, was unfortunately written before it appeared.

Setting down in chronological order the places from which the pottery came, we have:—

I. The cave-burials of H. Nikolaos, with their hand-made pottery of very early shapes.

II. The Kamáres cemeteries. These include (a) The burials on the gravel ridge described in B.S.A. viii. p. 290. These as a whole are the earliest of all. (b) The large bone-enclosure, shewn in B.S.A. viii. p. 291, Fig. 5. (c) The bone-enclosure at Patema.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 9 , November 1903 , pp. 297 - 328
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1903

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page 301 note 1 ‘Pottery of Knossos,’ J.H.S. xxiii, p. 171.

page 310 note 1 In publishing the filler from Zakro referred to above, Mr Hogarth has inadvertently stated that it was not pierced at the bottom. As the vase stands now in the Candia Museum the bottom is supplied in plaster. These examples from Palaikastro and others leave no doubt that the Zakro vase also was pierced.

page 310 note 2 ‘Archaeology in Greece,’ 1900–1, J.H.S. xxi. p. 339.

page 311 note 1 [The upper part of the restored design J.H.S. xxiii. 192 represents the neck of an amphora found by Professor Tsountas in a tomb at Mycenae, along with a more complete one, also restored by Messrs. Marshall and Bagge. The pattern may be derived from a necklace; similar forms appear among the glass-paste ornaments from Mycenae.— R. C. B.]

page 327 note 1 B.S.A. vii. p. 128, Fig. 41 shews a bridged lamp, which however had the handle of the earlier unbridged type. Bridged lamps with horizontal handles like those at Palaikastro were however found in Mycenaean deposits at Zakro.