¹ The authors would like to thank the following for permission to study and sample material included for discussion in this paper: the Managing Committee of the British School at Athens, Keith Branigan, Gerald Cadogan, Sinclair Hood, and Peter Warren. For comparative material referred to in this article we are grateful to Joseph Shaw, Philip Betancourt, Vance Watrous, Vincenzo La Rosa, and the Italian School of Archaeology in Athens. For permission to take samples we are indebted to the Herakleion Ephoreia and the Greek Ministry of Culture; our work was greatly facilitated by Charalambos Kritsas, Antonis Foundoulakis, and Kostis Vitorakis. We are grateful to Gerald Cadogan and Todd Whitelaw for their many helpful comments and criticisms on this paper, and we thank Ian Whitbread, Yannis Maniatis, Eleni Aloupi, and John Mitchell for advice and practical help in analytical work.

Research time for DEW in 1991–2, spent on this project, was made possible by a sabbatical leave from the University of Western Ontario and funded by a Standard Research Grant (no. 410–91–0103) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. PMD carried out his analysis and study while holding a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Science and Engineering Research Council of Great Britain at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, and the Laboratory of Archaeometry, Institute of Materials Science, NCSR ‘Demokritos’, Athens. He would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Applied Science in Archaeology fund, administered by the British Academy, in the form of an award for thin section preparation expenses. We would also like to thank Steffi Chlouveraki for the pottery drawings, Lena Papazoglou for Figs. 9–10, and Michalis Sakalis for thin section manufacture.

Abbreviations in addition to those in standard use:

AM = Ashmolean Museum

AN = Aghios Nikolaos Museum

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HM = Herakleion Museum

Hood and Taylor = Hood, M. S. F. and Taylor, W., The Bronze Age Palace at Knossos (London, 1981)Google Scholar

KSM = Knossos Stratigraphical Museum

NEO = Neolithic

SMP = Knossos Stratigraphical Museum Pot Number

Strat. Guide = Pendlebury, J. D. S., Pendlebury, H. W., Eccles, E., and Money-Coutts, M., A Guide to the Stratigraphical Museum in the Palace at Knossos, parts i–iii (London, 1933–1935)Google Scholar

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Non-standard abbreviations in catalogue entries:

a = angular

AAS = atomic absorption spectrophotometry

ave. = average

ext. = exterior

indet. = indeterminate

int. = interior

INAA = instrumental neutron activation analysis

OES = optical emission spectroscopy

PPL = plane-polarized light

pres. = preserved

sa = subangular

SEM = scanning electron microscope

sr = sub-rounded

r = rounded

XPL = cross-polarized light

² Zois (n. 1).

³ Warren (n. 1).

⁴ Wilson 1984; 1985.

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¹⁷ See discussion below for grey ware pyxides from Zakros and Mochlos (n. 70).

¹⁸ In the case of Knossos, all examples of fine grey ware from undisturbed or largely pure EM I–II A contexts are included in this study. There are a small number of additional pieces from later mixed deposits which are not dealt with, but we believe their inclusion would not significantly alter the results presented here. A number of the fine grey and fine painted ware examples discussed in this paper will be further published within their wider ceramic and stratigraphic contexts by S. Hood and G. Cadogan in a forthcoming monograph (Early Minoan Excavations at Knossos).

¹⁹ FG 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18 are probably from goblets because of their small rim diameter (0.11–0.15).

²⁰ Wilson 1985, P 37–41.

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²³ Ibid. 241–4.

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²⁵ Wilson 1984, 150–2, 159–60, 241–4; Wilson 1985, FF 1–4, 360–1.

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²⁷ Betancourt, 40.

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³⁸ Blackman and Branigan (n. 36), 32.

³⁹ Ibid. 29. Fine grey ware makes up only about 0.2 per cent (37 out of 16,392) of the Ayia Kyriaki tholos tomb assemblage (ibid., table 1, 37); this figure should be increased since the non-incised sherds of this ware were included in the larger grey burnished ware totals (128 out of 16,392).

⁴⁰ Ibid. 23.

⁴¹ Banti, L., ‘La grande tomba a tholos di Haghia Triadha’, ASA 13–14 (1930–1931), 155–251.Google Scholar The dark burnished lid with cylindrical handle (ibid., fig. 11, C 4063) does not necessarily prove an EM I foundation dale Tor this tomb; such lids do continue in EM II A contexts, e.g. Wilson 1984, 244–5; Wilson 1985, P 428–34, 353.

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⁶² e.g. Van Effenterre and Van Effenterre (n. 61), pl. 1: C 849, Pl. 73: C 1512; Amouretti (n. 60), 60 K 329, 75 pl. 3; for Knossos see DG 3–11.

⁶³ The examples of fine grey ware from Myrtos–Fournou Korifi were studied by the authors unless otherwise noted. Our thanks to Peter Warren for permission to study this pottery and to mention both the unpublished fine grey and fine painted wares (see below).

⁶⁴ See Warren, 93 and fig. 33. This percentage figure is based only on a sample total of 704 catalogued vases. A larger amount of fine grey ware was removed from excavated deposits: e.g. ‘a fair amount of fine grey burnished ware (52 sherds)’ came from the SE Rubbish Pits (ibid. 21). If, however, the amounts of this ware are considered against the entire EM II A assemblage at Myrtos, the relative numbers would certainly be no higher than 2.3 per cent, and probably smaller.

⁶⁵ e.g. Wilson 1985, P 42–3, 301, fig. 11, pl. 31.

⁶⁶ The period I deposits from Myrtos–Pyrgos will be included in the final publication of the site by G. Cadogan; for a preliminary report on the EM levels see id., ‘Pyrgos, Crete: 1970–77’, AR 24 (1977–8), 70–1.

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⁷⁴ Tzedakis, J., ‘Σπήλαιον Πλατυβόλας’, A. Delt. 23 (1968), 415–16, pl. 376 b.Google Scholar Other examples of similar shape can be cited from the Perivolia cave, Kastelli–Khania, and Debla. See refs. and discussion in Wilson 1984, 276–8; 298–9.

⁷⁵ Warren, P. and Tzedakis, J., ‘Debla: an Early Minoan settlement in western Crete’, BSA 69 (1974), P 20Google Scholar, low pedestalled goblet: 326–8, fig. 20; P 21, pyxis (?) lid: 326–8, fig. 20, pl. 50 b.

⁷⁶ Most of the fine painted ware from the West Court House considered in this study was originally published in a larger group of fine decorated wares (Wilson 1985, 307–12) which included a small group of vases in local dark-on-light painted ware.

⁷⁷ Blackman and Branigan (n. 36), 32.

⁷⁸ Zois (n. 1).

⁷⁹ Such different fabrics are confirmed by analysis in this study.

⁸⁰ As in the case of fine grey ware, the catalogue for Knossos is not comprehensive; examples of fine painted ware are included only from closed or largely pure EM II A deposits. There are a small number of pieces from later mixed contexts, but their addition here would not alter in any significant way the results reached in this study.

⁸¹ Wilson 1985, P 22–41.

⁸² For earlier discussion of the side-spouted bowl see Zois 714–17.

⁸³ For shape see Wilson 1985, P 97, fig. 13.

⁸⁴ For imports of EC II decorated sauceboats at EM II A Knossos, see Wilson 1984, 301–4; Wilson 1985, 358–9; Wilson (n. 8).

⁸⁵ See sections on Ayia Kyriaki and Koumasa below, and ‘Conclusions’, for more detailed comparisons.

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⁸⁸ For other rare examples at Knossos in local wares see Wilson 1985, P 149, P 198, pls 33, 36; for single applied clay bands on jug handles at EM II A Myrtos- Fournou Korifi, see Warren, pls 30 a, 34 a, 35 a.

⁸⁹ The use of applied pellet-eyes begins in EM II A (see e.g. West Court House: Wilson 1985, P 151, 153–5, 159–60, 184) and continues with jugs and ‘teapots’ in EM II B (e.g. Myrtos Fournou Korifi: Warren. P 398, 400, 418, 425, 649, 653).

⁹⁰ See n. 30 above.

⁹¹ See n. 31 above.

⁹² For discussion of period of use for cave, see pyxis FG 55 above.

⁹³ Xanthoudides (n. 21), no. 22, fig. 6 = PM i, fig. 19 d = Zois, pl. 24.

⁹⁴ Wilson 1985, P 110–11, 309, fig. 16; P 110 (sampled KN 92/372) is petrographically similar to several local Knossian dark-on-light painted ware jugs.

⁹⁵ HM 7541: Zois, pl. 24.

⁹⁶ See above n. 36.

⁹⁷ Again our thanks to Keith Branigan for permission to study and discuss here the Ayia Kyriaki survey finds. Sherds collected in initial survey work prior to excavation of the Ayia Kyriaki tholos (site W 6) in 1972 are now stored in the KSM. Brief note was made of this site in Blackman and Branigan (n. 35), 56, prior to publication of the excavation results in 1982 (n. 36).

⁹⁸ See p. 12 above for references and history of research at this site; and Wilson 1984, 279–83.

⁹⁹ Blackman and Branigan (n. 36), 32.

¹⁰⁰ This defines one of the three fabric groups comprising Ayios Onouphrios II ware at Ayia Kyriaki, and is equivalent to the fine painted ware at Knossos.

¹⁰¹ Blackman and Branigan (n. 36), 32–41.

¹⁰² Ibid., fig. 14: bowls/one-handled cups = B 6/C3 and C 12; side-spouted bowls (‘teapots”) = S 6; trough-spouted bowls = B 8; carinated bowls = C 10; jugs with cutaway spout = C 3.

¹⁰³ Ibid. 21, fig. 7, no. A 6.

¹⁰⁴ There was a sample of 38 Ayios Onouphrios II ware sherds in EM II A stratified contexts, as against 1,821 unstratified (ibid. 37, table 1). Not all the Ayios Onouphrios II ware can be considered as fine painted ware as defined in this study

¹⁰⁵ Blackman and Branigan (n. 36), fig. 14, shape S 3.

¹⁰⁶ For dark-on-light painted ware jugs see examples from the West Court House: Wilson 1985, 319–30.

¹⁰⁷ See e.g. Knossos, West Court House: Wilson 1985, 319–30.

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¹⁰⁹ Blackman and Branigan (n. 44), 32–4.

¹¹⁰ For refs. and discussion of site sec fine grey ware catalogue, above.

¹¹¹ VTM pl. 61.

¹¹² e.g. one-handled cup: VTM no. 4134; 38, pl. 27; and trough-spouted bowl: no. 4277; 38, pl. 27.

¹¹³ An example of a side-spouted bowl (rim D. 0.11) from Koumasa with the same decorative scheme as FP 168 is in the sherd collection of the Knossos Stratigraphical Museum.

¹¹⁴ Wilson (n. 86), 335–8, pl. 53.

¹¹⁵ See Megaloi Skoinoi under fine grey ware catalogue above for refs.

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¹²¹ Warren, pl. 30 c, bottom row, middle: rounded bowl with cross-hatched triangle below rim.

¹²² One of the pieces was a reused sherd cut in the form of a triangular-shaped ‘counter’ (Warren, no. 52, p. 218, fig. 107).

¹²³ Our thanks to Gerald Cadogan for permission to mention the Pyrgos I fine painted ware examples.

¹²⁴ 70 fine grey compared to 104 fine painted.

¹²⁵ Xanthoudides (n. 21), fig. 5, nos. 5, 8, fig. 7, nos. 38–9; Kyparissi Cave: Alexiou (n. 33), figs. 1, 1–4; 2, 8.

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¹²⁷ EM I deposit above Neolithic Hut: PFC 6: Levi (n. 53), 416, pl. 13 a; PFC 7: 414–16, pl. 12 a, ƒ i.

¹²⁸ Ibid. 414–16, pl. 12 c; Central Court sounding: Levi (n. 54), 238, pl. 55, top row, 2nd from l. For continued use of motif in EM II A see Ayia Kyriaki FP 102.

¹²⁹ KSM boxes K.II.1: 920–2; Strat. Guide plan 15. K.II.1; Wilson 1984, 29 159–65. About 90 per cent of the deposit is EM I B, with small amounts of Neolithic and Middle Minoan and a few sherds of EM II A. For other rare EM I B deposits at Knossos see Cadogan et al. (n. 28); D. E. Wilson, P. M. Day, and V. Kilikoglou, ‘A ceramic characterization of EM I B at Knossos’ (in preparation).

¹³⁰ For use of applied pellet feet in EM I B see Kyparissi Cave: Alexiou (n. 33), fig. 2. 2, and Lebena tomb II (basal level): Daux (n. 126), fig. 3, top row.

¹³¹ Examples of this group trom the West Court House were originally published as painted coarse ware (Wilson 1985, 345–511.

¹³² e.g. see West Court House: Wilson 1985, P 218 and 221, figs. 22–5.

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¹³⁴ For fine grey and fine painted ware vases from this site see above, FG 80–2, FP 175–80.

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²⁰¹ Day and Wilson (n. 9).

²⁰² Aloupi (n. 196).

²⁰³ A related but separate group of plain or incised grey wares are found at some sites in E. Crete (see Mallia, Mochlos, and Zakros above).

²⁰⁴ Note, however, that this does not necessarily mean specialized production: Rice, P. M., ‘Specialization, standardization, and diversity: a retrospective’, in Bishop, R. L. and Lange, F. W., The Ceramic Legacy of Anna O. Shepard (Colorado, 1991), 257–79.Google Scholar

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²⁰⁷ Not only the cylindrical to conical shape but also the decorative motifs distinguish this group from the fine grey ware examples. Contrast the concentric semicircles, triangular-stamped or comb-pricked in-filling, and bands of cross-hatching and herring-bone in fine grey ware with the group above decorated with hatched triangles, chevron columns, and zigzags.

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²¹² The tripod bowls in local cooking-pot ware at Knossos (Wilson 1985, P 346–52) are functionally not comparable to PFC 9.

²¹³ The bowl rims PFC 13–16 may also originally have come from pedestalled bowls. The pedestalled bowl also occurs in the local Knossian repertoire but is equally rare: e.g. from the West Court House, see Wilson 1985: dark grey burnished ware, P 51–2; red burnished ware, P 178; cooking-pot ware, P 355–8; painted coarse ware, P 410–12.

²¹⁴ Myer and Betancourt (n. 144).

²¹⁵ Ware-specific fabric groups have even been recorded in the latest phase of the Neolithic at Knossos: Day and Wilson (n. 9).

²¹⁶ The earliest stylistic evidence for contact between Knossos and the Mesara may go back to the latest Neolithic at Knossos, with rare vessels which compare closely with the Final Neolithic at Phaistos: Evans, J. D., ‘Neolithic Knossos: the growth of a settlement’, PPS 37.2 (1971), 81–117Google Scholar; Vagnetti, L. and Belli, P., ‘Character and problems of the Final Neolithic in Crete’, SMEA 68 (1978), 125–63Google Scholar; Wilson 1984, 137–9.

²¹⁷ Among the possible E. Cretan imports are most of the group published originally in Wilson 1985, 317–19, as ‘red burnished ware’. Further study of these and other non-local wares at EM Knossos will be presented in Day and Wilson (n. 9).

²¹⁸ Wilson (n. 8).

²¹⁹ Wilson 1984, 295–308; 1985, 358–9. A fuller study of the Cycladic imports at EM–MM Knossos is now in preparation by J. A. MacGillivray and D. E. Wilson.

²²⁰ Soles (n. 45), 257–8.

²²¹ This is suggested by the study in progress of the Myrtos–Fournou Korifi pottery by the authors and T. M. Whitelaw.

²²² For rare Mesara imports in EM II B contexts at Knossos, see Wilson's forthcoming study on EM II B ware groups at Knossos; Momigliano and Wilson (n. 32).

²²³ n. 8 above.