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A Late Cycladic I juglet from Therasia in the British Museum (BM 1926.4–10.9)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

V. Economidou
V. Economidou
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Ioannina
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Abstract

The vase, found in Therasia in 1866, is published in detail for the first time and placed in the context of the eyed ewers from Thera. The suggested date of the vase is LC I early, contemporary with the seismic destruction level deposits at Akrotiri.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 90 , November 1995 , pp. 155 - 156
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1995

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References

2 The account of their journeys in the Cycladic islands is published in Bent, J. T., The Cyclades: Or Life among the Insular Greeks (London, 1885).Google Scholar

3 Lenormant, F., ‘Découverte de constructions antéhistoriques dans l'île de Therasia’, RA 14 (1866), 423–32Google Scholar; see also Barber (n. 1), 65, fig. 48.

4 For the use of this very characteristic kind of clay in Theran pottery, see Doumas, C., Thera: Pompeii of the Ancient Aegean (London, 1983), 3Google Scholar; Marthari 1987, 360 n. 4.

5 For ‘geometric’ pottery with designs in matt black paint on a chalky white slip, see Barber, R. L. N., ‘Phylakopi 1911 and the history of the later Cycladic Bronze Age’, BSA 69 (1974), 1–53, at 17, 25Google Scholar; Barber (n. 1), 95, fig. 69.

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10 Doumas, C., ‘The stratigraphy of Akrotiri’, in Doumas, (ed.), Thera and the Aegean World, i (London, 1978), at 778Google Scholar; Doumas (n. 4), 28.

11 Marthari 1987, 357.

12 Marthari 1987, 357, fig. 3.

13 Doumas, C., ‘Ανασϰαφὴ Θήρας’, PAE (1975) Pls 194 α, 195 α–βGoogle Scholar; id., ‘Ανασϰαφὴ Θήρας’, PAE (1978) 219–28, pl. 152; Marthari 1987, figs. 7–8.

14 Doumas (n. 4), 110, pls 62–3; Marthari 1987, 357, figs. 7–8.

15 Marthari 1987, 357, table 1.

16 Marthari 1987, 370–8.

17 The findspot must correspond to room E on Fouque's plan: see Fouque, F. A., Santorin et ses éruptions (Paris, 1879), 96.Google Scholar The vase was found in layer C, at a depth of 3 m (pumice layer); the walls of an LC I building were traced in this layer and at a depth of 2.15 m; Lenormant (n. 3), 427.

18 Lenormant (n. 3), 427.

19 Marthari 1987, 368.