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Knossos 1951–61: Orientalizing and Archaic Pottery from the Town

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

J. N. Coldstream
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This is the second of three articles presenting the settlement pottery of post-Minoan Knossos, found during the British School's excavations of 1951–61 mostly under the direction of Mr. Sinclair Hood. The Protogeometric and Geometric deposits were published in BSA lxvii (1972) 63–98; the final article in the series, to appear in a future volume of BSA, will be devoted to the Classical and Hellenistic material.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 68 , November 1973 , pp. 33 - 63
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1973

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References

Acknowledgements. My thanks are due to Mr. Sinclair Hood who, while Director of the British School at Athens, kindly invited me, during my tenure of the Macmillan Studentship in 1957–60, to undertake the study of this material. I am abo grateful to the School's Managing Committee for the award of this studentship, for facilities of study at Knossos, and for a grant to cover the expenses of publication. The cataloguing of the pottery in situ was completed with the aid of a travel grant from the Central Research Fund of London University during the summer of 1963.

For helpful advice concerning the Archaic pottery I am gready indebted to Dr. B. A. Sparkes and to the late Miss Lucy Talcott, who kindly permitted me to see comparable material in the reserve of the Athenian Agora Excavations.

Of the drawings, FIG. 11 is by Mrs. Elizabeth Green. The final tracings are the work of Mrs. Patricia Clarke (FIGS. 1,2) and Mrs. Diana Wardle (FIGS. 3–14).

Abbreviations, other than those in general use:

Agora = The Athenian Agora: results of èxcavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Princeton, in progress).

AR = Archaeological Reports (JHS).

Arkades = Levi, D., ‘Arkades, una città cretese’, Ann x–xii (1927–1929).Google Scholar

GGP = Coldstream, J.N., Greek Geometric Pottery (London, 1968Google Scholar).

KSD = Knossos: the Sanctuary of Demeter (BSA suppl. viii, 1973).

NC = Payne, H. G. C., Necrocorinthia (Oxford, 1931Google Scholar).

PH. = Preserved Height.

PL. = Preserved Length.

SCE = Swedish Cyprus Expedition (Stockholm, in progress).

1 Preliminary reports by Hood, : AR 1958, 21–2Google Scholar; 1959, 19–20; 1960, 22–4; 1961, 26–7; 1962, 25–9.

2 AR 1961, 27 (6); Late Geometric deposit (F), BSA lxvii (1972) 77. 85–7.

3 JHS lxxii (1952) 108; BSA lxvii (1972) 64.

4 Initially reported as ‘what appears to be a well of Archaic or Early Classical times’, AR 1959, 21.

5 Supervised by Mr. J. Whitley and Mr. (now Dr.) J. W. Hayes, 22–31 June 1959; the following account is based on their dig notes. See AR 1960, 26.

6 Cleared 16–21 July 1960 under the supervision of Mr. L. H. Sackett and Mr. J. Ellis Jones; on their dig notes the following account is based.

7 Fortetsa 186–8; BSA lxvii (1972) 78.

8 e.g. the Amphora, Kynosarges, BSA xxxv (1934–1935) Pl. 58Google Scholar; the Amphora, Aphrodite, Jdl lii (1437) 166 ff.Google Scholar

9 Fortetsa 150–2.

10 As Payne observed, the colours of polychrome pithoi are too fugitive for any use other than funerary (BSA xxix (1927–8) 281).

11 BSA lv (1960) 160 nos. 5–13.

12 BSA lxvii (1972) 81 no. 5.

13 MA xvii (1906) 596 fig. 404.

14 BSA lxvii (1972) 79 fig. 6.

15 e.g. BSA lxvii (1972) 86 fig. 9, F 34 and F 32.

16 Brock's dates: c. 735–680 for EO, c. 680–630 for LO (Fortetsa 216). Elsewhere (GGP 245–6, 254–5, 329–30) I have argued for a transition from LG to EO c. 710–700; but my LG and ‘transitional’ includes some of the vases assigned by Brock to EO.

17 9–16 July 1960, under the supervision of Mr. L. H. Sackett and Mr. J. Ellis-Jones; on their dig notes the following account is based. The well appears in the left foreground of AR 1961 fig. 29.

18 Cf. Dunbabin, , Gnomon xxiv (1952) 195–7Google Scholar; KSD 182. A few sixth-century objects from Knossos have been published by Boardman, J., BSA lvii (1962) 28 ff.Google Scholar

19 Boardman, , Proceedings of 2nd International Cretological Congress (Athens, 1967) i. 135–6Google Scholar; Hayes, J. W., Tocra i. 78–80 pls. 55–6.Google Scholar

20 Fortetsa 187; BSA lxvii (1972) 65.

21 M.M. III: Evans, , Palace of Minos i. 571Google Scholar fig. 416c.

22 This volume p. 279.

23 Descriptions of South Cretan fabrics: D. Levi, Arkades 531, ‘3. Argilla gialla … che costituisce il maggior numero di vasi. … 4. Argilla bianco-verdiccia … di tipo di argilla ceramica detta “protocorinzia”, e anche ad Arkades adoperata specialmente per i vasetti-unguentari.’ Rizza, G., Il santuario sull' Acropoli di Gortina (Rome, 1968) 145Google Scholar, ‘il medesimo colore rosa’, but sometimes ‘un colore plù pallido, tendente piuttosto al verdino’.

24 Agora xii nos. 1579–85.

25 Scheibler, Ingeborg, JdI lxxix (1964) 72 ff.Google Scholar

26 Hesperia vii (1938) 601 ff., 176–83, fig. 25.

27 BSA lxvii (1972) 86 fig. 9, F 34; J 25 above.

28 Agora xii. 213; nos. 1781–9.

29 Cf. also the sixth-century bowl, Tocra i no. 931, in other respects not unlike our L 44.

30 i.e. Tocra i no. 993 (kantharos).

31 Tocra i nos. 927–8.

32 e.g. BSA xlv (1950) 171 pl. 13 Ac.

33 Agora iv. 31–3.

34 Corinth iv. 2, 32 fig. 14 no. 11.