Abbreviations additional to those in standard use:

Athens, Areopagus T. = Leslie Shear, T., Hesperia ix (1940) 274 ff.Google Scholar

Athens, Ares T. = Townsend, E. D., Hesperia xxiv (1955) 187 ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Attica = Stubbings, F. H., ‘The Mycenaean Pottery of Attica’, BSA xlii (1947) 1 ff.Google Scholar

BM = Catalogue of Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, vol. 1; Part 1: ‘Prehistoric Aegean Pottery’ by E. J. Forsdyke (for numbers prefixed by ‘A’); Part II: ‘Cypriote, Italian, and Etruscan Pottery’, by H. B. Walters (for numbers prefixed by ‘C’).

CMP = A. Furumark, The Chronology of Mycenaean Pottery (1941)

FM = Furumark Motive Number; MP 236 ff.

FS = Furumark Shape Number; MP 585 ff.

GB = Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain (fascicules 1, 7)

Khalkis = Hankey, V., BSA xlvii (1952) 49 ff.Google Scholar

MP = A. Furumark, The Mycenaean Pottery (1941).

MV = A. Furtwängler and G. Loeschcke, Mykenische Vasen (1886).

Mycenae = A. J. B. Wace, Mycenae (1949).

Prosymna = C. W. Blegen, Prosymna (1937).

Schachermeyr = F. Schachermeyr, ‘Forschungsbericht überdie Ausgrabungen und Neufunde zur ägäischen Frühzeit 1957–60’, AA 1962, Heft 2.

Trianda = Furumark, A., ‘The Settlement at Ialysos and Aegean History 1550–1400 B.C.’, Opuscula Archaeologica vi (1950) 150 ff.Google Scholar

Trypa = (1910) 21 ff.

References to individual vases and to groups are given in the form used by Furumark.

¹ CMP 83. For recent discussion and references see Vermeule, E. T., AJA lxvii (1963) 195 ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar To whatever period in Cretan terms this destruction is assigned after recent reassessment, it appears to fall at the end of L.H. IIIA 1 on the mainland and to be historically connected with the changes that mark the development of L.H. IIIA 1 into IIIA 2.

² Trianda 262 ff. More evidence is now available from Ephesus, (AJA lxviii (1964) 157, pl. 50: 10, 11)Google Scholar, Miletus, (Istanbuler Mitteilungen ix–x (1959–1960) 1 ff.)Google Scholar, Karpathos, (BSA lvii (1962) 159 ff.Google Scholar; AD xvii (1961/2), A¹, 32 ff.), and Kythera, (BSA lvi (1961) 148 ff.Google Scholar, Excavations 1963). Among the unpublished pots from the original excavations on Kythera, nowexhibited in the National Museum, Athens, are two Alabastra and two Piriform Jars of mainland type as well as material of Cretan type. One of the Piriform Jars is most interesting because it has a shoulder zone of Scale (with fill) and a broad body zone of solid painted triangles making a reserved Zigzag. It seems to me to be a mainland imitation of a Cretan type. Both this and the new tomb group from Karpathos are important because they show the contrasting types of Cretan and mainland pottery in usein this period.

³ CMP 52. Recent excavation (1963–4) may throw more light on this date.

⁴ Furumark's groups are discussed below.

⁵ These are: Small Handleless Jar T. 517: 9; Alabastron T. 66, Athens: National Museum 3065 (exhibited but not published); Alabastra, various examples, T. 518, 530; Square-sided Alabastron MV xxvii. 208; Amphoroid Jug T. 518: 42; Narrow-Necked Jug GB 294: 33, BM A. 785; Cup T. 517:18; Conical Cup T. 71, Athens: National Museum 3047 (exhibited but not published); various monochrome Feeding Bottles and Cups. There are also sherds ofthe period in the British Museum.

⁶ Mycenae 127; BSA xlix (1954) 289, lviii (1963) 45. The term bothros is not strictly accurate as the material had been thrown into a rock cleft not a prepared pit. The name, which was used throughout the excavation and in all notes and records, is retained for convenience.

⁷ BSA xxv (1921–2, 1922–3) pl. xiv h, i.

⁸ Wace, A. J. B., ‘Chamber Tombs at Mycenae’, Archaeologia lxxxii (1932) 17.Google Scholar The pottery notebook comments: ‘All this stuff good early LH iii — like 505 dromos and ist (lowest) level of Lion Gate sector.’ Contrast, however, Mycenae 128 where Wace considers the Ramp House material earlier than that from T. 505.

⁹ The surviving pottery of this level contains Deep Bowls of ‘Open Style’. It should be dated to about the middle of L.H. IIIB. Cf. CMP 7¹. It is hoped to republish the available sherds and other evidence relating to the Lion Gate Stratification.

¹⁰ A box marked ‘Ramp House’ survived the war but it cannot be exactly identified with any of the groups from this area. The sherds covered the period L.H. II to early L.H. IIIB and may perhaps be taken as an indication of the type of material from the deposits in the area.

¹¹ Chadwick, J.et al., ‘The Mycenae Tablets III’, TAPS lii (1962) 30 ff.Google Scholar

¹² It has become obvious that L.H. IIIB must be sub divided. Schachermeyr divides it into ‘Zyguries-Stil’ and ‘Stil des Tirynther Schuttes’. In order, however, to preserve the format of Furumark's terminology the terms L.H. IIIB 1 and L.H. IIIB 2 will be used in future discussions of the pottery from Mycenae instead of ‘the first half of L.H. IIIB’, &c. The division between L.H. IIIB 1 and 2 can be placed after the destruction of the houses outside the walls at Mycenae. Cf. BSA lviii (1963) 50.

¹³ In 1921, when the Atreus Ridge was being tested for chamber tombs, another group of pottery containing material of this date was discovered. It is clear,however, from the original pottery notes that the group was not pure and cannot be used as chronological or typological evidence. This was not realized by Wace, cf. Mycenae 125, 128.

¹⁴ CMP 52. Furumark's terminology and abbreviations areretained in this discussion.

¹⁵ Trianda 170 ff.

¹⁶ Maroni T. 5 was listed as homogeneous (CMP 53) though not included in the table (CMP 38).

¹⁷ ILN 15. 2. 1936, fig. 8.

¹⁸ BCH lxxvii (1953) 59.

¹⁹ Grace, V. R., ‘The Canaanite Jar’ in The Aegean and the Sear East (1956) 80 ff.Google Scholar

²⁰ Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant (1951) 27.

²¹ Op. cit. 29, pl. vi: 3, 4, 5.

²² Townsend, E. D., Hesperia xxiv (1955) 187 ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Schacher-meyr uses this tomb as the focal point of his ‘Agora-Stil’.

²³ Hankey, V., BSA xlvii (1952), 49 ff.Google Scholar L.H. IIIA 1 material was found in Tombs Vromousa I, II, III, IV, V; Vromousa (Lembesi); Vromousa, Second Group, IV; Trypa VI, VII, IX, IX (Kallimani), X, XI. Material from these tombs will be referred to as Khalkis followed by the inventory number as given by Mrs. Hankey.

²⁴ The painted pottery of this deposit, which alone sur vived the war, is stored in Case 63 of the Nauplia Museum. The first detailed study of this materialwas carried out in 1957 (BSA lii (1957) 193). The report was checked with the material in 1962. At this time it was also examined by Mr. Mervyn Popham and I owe much to discussion with him.

²⁵ In the chart the figures for the North section and South sectio of each shape and pattern are given separately. Asterisks refer to special mention of unusual features (mainly in the patterns) given in the text. Numbers in brackets refer to accessorial uses of the pattern.

²⁶ One of these is most unusually decorated with the spout area treated as the centre of a flower design and supplied with a curved stem.

²⁷ Cf. the examples from Kalyvia, nr. Phaistos, Marinatos, S., Crete and Mycenae (London, 1960) nos. 122, 123.Google Scholar

²⁸ Maroni T. 5: GB 22: 12, BMC 393. A clear distinction of these types is made most easily by limiting FS 7 to conical and conical-piriform examples and FS 8 to piriform and advanced piriform (except the almost stemmed type FS 9).

²⁹ H. Schliemann, Tiryns (1886).

³⁰ BSA xxv (1921–2, 1922–3) pl. xiv h, i.

³¹ BSA xlix (1954) pl. 49 (d).

³² Athens, National Museum 3047; unpublished, but on display.

³³ Deep Cups of the L.H. IIIA 1 period probably exist also, though Furumark's groups FS 213 and 279 are not definitive. The latter certainly do not all have horizontal handles.

³⁴ (1932).

³⁵ The base of this vase seems to be restored.

³⁶ Hommel, P., Istanbuler Mitteilungen ix–x (1959–1960) 63 ff.Google Scholar

³⁷ Persson, A. W., New Tombs at Dendra near Midea (1942), 87.Google Scholar

³⁸ For shape only. No other examples of L.H. IIIA 1 are known.

³⁹ These again are the earliest examples of this shape.

⁴⁰ Cf. Mycenae T. 515: 16.

⁴¹ D. M. Robinson et al., A Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto (1930).

⁴² MP 276.

⁴³ A Rhyton is more suitable to the design but in this case the vase is unusually straight-sided.

⁴⁴ MP 298.

⁴⁵ Cf. the Alabastron with Sacral Ivy (plate 69 (d), 5).

⁴⁶ Istanbuler Mitteilungen ix–x (1959–60) pl. 42: 1.

⁴⁷ Schliemann, op. cit., above (n. 29).

^47a Stubbings (Attica 28) refers to ‘thousands of sherds of kylikes of this sort’ (monochrome examples of FS 255) from this deposit.

⁴⁸ I have made a detailed study of these figurines and their significance in my unpublished thesis, The Develop ment of Mycenaean Terracotta Figurines, London University, 1961. This is also available for reference in the library of the British School at Athens.

⁴⁹ Cf. Prosymna, fig. 611: 420.

⁵⁰ Cf. Prosymna, fig. 611: 460.

⁵¹ Cf. Mylonas, G. E. in The Aegean and the Near East (1956) no ff., pl. xiv. 6a.Google Scholar

⁵² Annuario viii–ix (1946–8) 13 ff.

⁵³ Cf. Prosymna, fig. 297: 725.

⁵⁴ Cf. Prosymna, fig. 457: 133.

⁵⁵ Cf. Prosymna 365 and fig. 617.

⁵⁶ Cf. C. W. Blegen, Korakou (1921) fig. 132: 9, for a rougher version of this type.

⁵⁷ Cf. Prosymna, fig. 156: 421, though this has been inter preted as a ‘bier’ from its funerary context.

⁵⁸ Prosymna 353.

⁵⁹ CMP 86 ff.,130.

⁶⁰ Trianda 171.

⁶¹ Trianda 262 n. 7.

⁶² The example from Mycenae T. 71 (see above, n. 5) also seems on stylistic grounds to belong to L.H. IIIA 1.

⁶³ Pottery of this period is well represented at Mycenae, (BSA lviii (1963) 46 ff.)Google Scholar and will be discussed in detail in a future article.

⁶⁴ It is not clear what Furumark (Trianda 173 n. 1) means when he says: ‘On the other hand, some of the pottery classed by me as Myc. IIIA 1 belongs, as shown by new evidence, to Myc. IIIA 2 a.’ Perhaps he is referring to the presence of Cups (FS 219) with Stipple Pattern in apparently L.H. IIIA 2 early contexts at Prosymna.