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Knossos: Two Deposits of orientalizing Pottery
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
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In spite of recent excavations within the town, the pottery of early Hellenic Knossos is still better known from the offerings in tombs. Consequently, any domestic deposit containing a wide range of whole profiles will add considerably to our understanding of the pottery in daily use.
Two such deposits are presented here, affording a view of the Knossian sequence at the beginning and at the end of the seventh century B.C. The first is a chance find from a small rescue excavation; the second comes from a well, dug through the debris of the Minoan ‘Unexplored Mansion’, but unassociated with any architectural remains on that site.
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1 BSA lxviii (1973) 35.
2 FIGS, 1, 2, 9, and 10 were drawn by Mrs. Nicola Coldstream. FIGS. 3–8 are the work of Miss Susan Bird, who also prepared all the final tracings.
3 M. S. F. Hood, Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area (1957). figure 82.
4 We follow the abbreviations of chronological phases suggested by J. K. Brock, Fortetsa xvi.
5 Several more examples, as yet unpublished, came from rubbish deposits above the ‘Unexplored Mansion’.
6 Brock, Fortetsa 150, type V; cf. especially pl. 84.
7 For fuller discussion see BSA lv (1960) 171.
8 Fortetsa 166 f.
9 F 32 (basin), F 31 (lekanis), F 27 (cooking jug—there with tripod feet), and F 33 (casserole).
10 BSA lxviii (1973) 36.
11 Fortetsa no. 995 (disintegrated), dated to EO by its context within tomb II (pp. 86 f.).
12 e.g. Fortetsa nos. 735, 806, 973, 1126, 1346, and 1369, all from EO contexts.
13 I discuss the initial date of EO in Greek Geometric Pottery (London, 1968), 245 f., 254 f., and 329 f.Google Scholar
14 The excavation of the well was done by Nikos Daskalakis and Andonis Lambakis, and supervised by Tony Spawforth on whose notes the present report is based. For previous mention of the well and a plan showing its position, see AR 1973, 63, figs. 1 and 2 (lower left).
15 Brock, Fortetsa 214.
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17 Op. cit. pl. 51, An 152 and 165, ‘later than central EC’; pl. 53, An 113, ‘late EC’; pl. 55, An 78, ‘end of EC or beginning of MC’.
18 Fortetsa 156.
19 Although the cup base H 60 displays this feature.
20 BSA lxviii (1973) 35, with references (nn. 11, 12).
21 BSA lv (1960) 162 no. 31 fig. 5 (PGB); F 27 (LG); above, TP/68 no. 23 (EO); H 74 (LO).
22 Cf. SCE IV 2 fig. XL 1, Black-on-Red II (1V).
23 J 18, 19, rim frs.; G 66 and 67 may be from Geometric prototypes.
24 Fortetsa 187; BSA lxvii (1972) 65.
25 Tocra, the Archaic Deposits I (1966) 79 f. no. 923 pl. 56.
26 See C. Davaras, BSA lxiii (1968) 145, with references; add H 22.
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28 Hesperia xiv (1945) pl. 26.
29 Corinth VII 2, An 1 86, pl. 49: ‘later than central EC’.