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Excavations in Melos, 1899: C. The Pottery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

Extract

In a report which appeared in the last number of the British School Annual I gave a short description, in chronological order, of the main classes of pottery found at Phylakopi, and tried to indicate their place in the history of Aegean art. I shall not attempt in the present paper to write a fuller and more accurate account on the same lines. The proper place for that will be in the final publication. All I propose to do now is to make a few desultory notes of a general character on the finds of this last season.

The supply of pottery was as abundant this year as ever. To give an idea of how closely the soil is packed with it, I find on a rough calculation that an average day's work yielded somewhere between ten thousand and twenty thousand fragments. The experience gained in the preceding season made this large daily harvest much more easy to deal with.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1899

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1 There is not enough of material to show whether or not in the later period Melos had a distinctive geometric fabric of its own. Much of the geometric pottery discovered there was certainly imported. Even Boeotian ware has been found in some of the tombs.