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Excavations at Palaikastro. II: § 3.—The Chronology of Palaikastro and Zakro
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2013
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We may divide the life of the town into three principal periods.
I. The Kamáres Period.
II. The Early Mycenaean Period, ending with the fall of Zakro.
III. The Late Mycenaean Period.
Of these the first is well defined, thanks to the labours of Dr Mackenzie and of Mr Dawkins, who has treated the sequence of the Kamáres pottery at Palaikastro and the circumstances under which it has been found at some length in his paper on the Pottery. But the line between the second and third periods has not yet been drawn.
The settlement at Palaikastro came into being earlier and survived later than its neighbour at Zakro, the life of which began, as I believe, midway in Period I. and ceased abruptly at the end of Period II. Both Mr Hogarth and Mr Dawkins have spoken of the pottery found in the houses there as late Mycenaean; the former describes it as ‘almost exclusively characterised by the inferior glaze and debased ornament which we associate with the late efforts of Mycenaean art in the Aegean’ (B.S.A. vii. 145), and Mr Dawkins does not contest this judgment in his valuable study of the Zakro Pottery (J.H.S. xxiii. p. 254). I am disposed to place it much earlier and to regard the poorer painted vases as of local make and more or less contemporary with the splendid filler from House A, which is unquestionably a product of the Palace Period.
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page 283 note 1 Other objects—in 10, steatite lamp-stand, ·09 m. high, top ·13 square; 4 pierced labels and 5 pierced cylinder weights of clay; a whole heap of pierced clay balls and cubes, stones with natural perforations, broken vase-handles in clay and stone, a hoard made for some practical purpose, perhaps for use as loom-weights or net-sinkers. In 13, two whetstones.
The shattered condition of the vases was accounted for by the broken slabs from floor and wall-facings of the room above which lay on and among them. Many of these slabs were coated on one side with fine white stucco; some had been fused by the heat of the fire into a sort of slag.
page 284 note 1 Minor finds here—β 10, bits of bone pin, triton-shell, flake of obsidian: 13, bits of bronze pin, obsidian, a grey flint, half of a hemispherical steatite bowl with one ledge-handle.