¹ There have been brief notices of these finds: ADelt 16B (1960) 138; AR (1959–60) 12;(1961–2) 12; BCH 85 (1961) 682; OpAth 5 (1965) 104. I am very grateful to Professor N. Yialouris for permission to publish these objects and to my wife, Dr. Litsa Kontorli-Papadopoulos, who made and prepared all the drawings and discussed with me the subject. The photographs are by the author.

ABBREVIATIONS ADDITIONAL TO THOSE IN STANDARD USE

Aigion Papadopoulos, A. J., Excavations at Aigion–1970, SIMA, vol. XLVI, Göteborg, 1976.Google Scholar

Athenian Agora Immerwahr, S. A., The Athenian Agora, vol. XIII, The Neolithic and Bronze Ages, Princeton, New Jersey, 1971.Google Scholar

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Deiras Deshayes, J., Argos, Les fouilles de la Deiras, études Péloponnésiennes IV, Paris, 1966.Google Scholar

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FM Furumark Motive Number: A. Furumark, The Mycenaean Pottery.

FS Furumark Shape Number: ibid.

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Khalkis Hankey, V., ‘Late Helladic Tombs at Khalkis’ in BSA 47 (1952) 49–95.Google Scholar

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² Cf. ADelt 9 (1924–5) Parartema, 14–18; PAE (1925) 43–7;(1926) 130–1; (1927) 52.

³ See the very valuable paper of Professor Åström in OpAth 5 (1965) 89–110, where finds of early LHIII date from the collection of Aigion and the Berlin Museums are published. Cf. also my recent publication, Excavations at Aigion—1970. SIMA, vol. 46 (1976).

⁴ In the excavation report in ADelt many more finds are summarily recorded, which remain unrecognized so far. The finds presented here (labelled ‘Kato Goumenitsa-1959–60’) were discovered too late for me to incorporate them into my forthcoming publication of Mycenaean Achaea.

⁵ This razor comes from Kyparisses' excavations at the same site (Vrysarion). See PAE(1925) 46, fig. 2 (second from right) and Mycenaean Achaea, 436–7.

⁶ Cf. BSA 53–4 (1958–9) 245 (1.7) (Upper Gypsades) and Mycenaean Achaea, pl. 161 b–c; PAE (1964) pl. 68a (PAX.76, 156, 328, from Mitopolis, Teichos Dymaion, and Chalandritsa respectively).

⁷ Cf. AE (1888) 171–2 and MMΠ 60; PTK, 115–17; Prosymna, 347; BSA 51 (1956) 96–7; 53–4 (1958–9) 234–5; Hesperia 24 (1955) 215–16; CBMW, 106–7 and BSA 69 (1974) 245; Les Outils, 330–4; Perati B, 281–3; ΥΕΘ, 103–10; A Delt 9 (1924–5) 71–2; ΔΝΕ, 247; Athenian Agora, 106.

⁸ Mycenaean Achaea, 438–40.

⁹ BSA 53–4 ( 1958–9) 235.

¹⁰ See above, p. 174.

¹¹ BSA, op. cit.

¹² PTK, 23.

¹³ Since the possibility that these examples and the fragmentary leaf-shaped PMX.1272 belonged to the same burial cannot be ruled out (the excavation report is very brief and riot informative).

¹⁴ BSA 63 (1968) 107.

¹⁵ PTK, 117.

¹⁶ ADelt 3 (1917) 140–1.

¹⁷ The example cited by Keramopoullos was found together with a whetstone (op. cit. fig. 103). Cf. also NTD, 45, where Persson inlines to accept them as razors on the ground that to judge from the monuments, the people of the mainland shaved their moustaches after the Shaft-Grave period.

¹⁸ Hood, , BSA 47 (1952) 262Google Scholar; 51 (1956) 96; Sandars, , BSA 53–4 (1958–1959) 235Google Scholar; Desborough, LMTS, 59; Catling, CBMW, 230; Vermeule, E., Hesperia 24 (1955) 215–16Google Scholar; Immerwahr, , Athenian Agora, 106, 176.Google Scholar

¹⁹ Cf. Sandars, op. cit. ‘The leaf razor does not appear to survive LM and LHIIIA’ and Desborough, LMTS, 59 ‘leaf-shape is not found after LHIIIA.’

²⁰ Cf. Perati B, 281–3.

²¹ Cf. BSA 69 (1974) 245.

²² ‘The antiquity of the one-edged bronze knife in the Aegean’ PPS 21 (1955) 174–97. For class la, ibid. 175–7, fig. 1 and 188–190 (lists).

²³ Les Outils, 313–16.

²⁴ Cf. MP, 39; BSA 62 (1967) 137; ChT, 150; Perati B, 209; ΔΝΕ, 237.

²⁵ See Mycenaean Achaea, 249. In most other sites (e.g. Mycenae, Khalkis) the shape hardly survives the LHIIIB period.

²⁶ See Mycenaean Achaea, 241, 249 (it outnumbers all other patterns). For the distinction between LHI-II (wheel) and LHIII (concentric circles) alabastra suggested by Wace for the Mycenae examples see ChT, 154, 171. Cf. also Khalkis, 57; ΔΝΕ, 237.

²⁷ e.g. in Thebes. Cf. also Khalkis, 65.

²⁸ Cf. MP, 43; Prosymna, 420.

²⁹ Mycenaean Achaea, 260 (almost equal in number to the rounded alabastra).

³⁰ Op. cit. 262.

³¹ Op. cit.

³² Cf. e.g. Attica, pl. 11 19, 13; Prosymna, figs. 357: 771; 472: 931.

³³ Mycenaean Achaca, 269. For the origin of the type from metal prototypes and the LHIIB (Ephyraean) style of the Argolid see Attica, 49, and Athenian Agora, 133.

³⁴ OpAA 5 (1965) 99; Mycenaean Achaea, 267.

³⁵ Cf. e.g. Prosymna, 439–40, fig. 358: 1105 (only one example); Athenian Agora, 134 (three examples).

³⁶ PAE (1925) 43–7; (1926) 130–1; (1927) 52 and Mycenaean Achaea.

³⁷ Mycenaean Achaea, 504 and Map 17.

³⁸ Cf. Vermeule, E., AJA 64 (1960) 18Google Scholar ‘extensive Mycenaean penetration of Achaea is a phenomenon of the post-Trojan war period’; Desborough, , LMTS, 9, 31, 100Google Scholar ‘an influx of Mycenaeans took place when LHIIIC had started to take over from LHIIIB’; Ålin, EMF, 68, ‘ein paar Fällen mit Funden aus IIIA and IIIB, wie Vrachneika und K. Goumenitsa bisher gefunden wurden’.

³⁹ BCH 70 (1946) 631.

⁴⁰ OpAth 5 (1965) 96, 110.

⁴¹ GAMS, 86.

⁴² Mycenaean Achaea, 529; Aigion, 46.