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Marine Style Pottery from the Seraglio in Kos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

Abstract

This paper gives a preliminary publication of the Marine Style pottery found during excavations at the Seraglio in 1980 and 1981. The pottery has an importance for the history of the south-eastern Aegean and Miletus, following the eruption of the volcano at Santorini, and for this reason is presented here in advance of the final publication.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1987

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Acknowledgements. I wish to thank my friend and colleague Charis Kantzia for her kind assistance and constant encouragement during the excavation and study of the material. I am also grateful to Eriphily Kaninia and Toshio Katsumata who have kindly read and commented on drafts of this article. I would particularly like to thank Dr H. W. Catling and Mr J. A. MacGillivray who have given me most generously of their time and expertise.

Abbreviations other than standard

MS Corpus Mountjoy, P. A., ‘The Marine Style Pottery of LM IB/LH IIA: Towards a Corpus’, BSA (1984) 161–;219.Google Scholar

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1 The V. and D. Vasileiou plot at the corner of Aghias Paraskevis and El. Venizelou streets. The excavation was carried out on behalf of the 22nd Ephoreia of Antiquities at intervals from August 1980 to September 1981. The material is stored in the Kos Museum.

2 Four successive ‘cities’ were observed by L. Morricone, the pre-war excavator of the site—Seraglio. The recent excavations revealed two earlier strata, pre-dating the MM IIIB–LM IA settlement.

3 Seraglio, 154f.

4 Seraglio, 154, fig. 11; Zarraftis, I., Koia etoi epta tevki perigrafonta ta tis Ko (Kos 1921) 56 n. 1.Google Scholar

5 MS Corpus, 162.

6 Munsell Soil Colour Charts (Baltimore 1973).

7 MS Corpus, 167.

8 Mountjoy, , BSA 67 (1972) 125Google Scholar; Adreadaki-Vlasaki, M. and Godart, L., SMEA LXXX, 54 fig. 8.Google Scholar

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10 Betancourt, P., Temple University Aegean Symposium 7 (1982) 36.Google Scholar

11 Mountjoy, , AJA 81 (1977) 557–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

12 LM IA and LC I examples in pictorial style include the double vase from Thera, Ergon (1977) 161–2; and the minia ture fresco from the West House, Marinatos, Thera VI (1976) pl. 112. See also Seager, , The Cemetery of Pachyammos, Crete (Philadelphia 1916) pls. 12, 14.Google Scholar

13 This problem of identification was discussed with P. A. Mountjoy and M. R. Popham, and T. Katsumata suggested that the fragment could belong to the neck of an ewer with strainer, for example Bosanquet, and Dawkins, , The Unpublished Objects from the Palaikastro Excavations 1902–6 (London 1923) pl. 17.Google Scholar

14 Alexiou, , Ysterominoiki Taphoi Limenos Knosou (Athens 1967) 42–3.Google Scholar On the example from Isopata the neck joint is un-decorated, Evans, , Archaeologia 65 (1913) fig. 46Google Scholar; see also Boyd-Hawes, , Gournia, Vasiliki and Other Prehistoric Sites on the Isthmus of Ierapetra Crete (Philadelphia 1908) pls. 9.9, 10.26.Google Scholar

15 Betancourt, P., AJA 77 (1975) 333–4CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Niemeier, W. D., ‘The Master of the Gournia Octopus Stirrup-jar and a LM I Pottery Workshop at Gournia Exporting to Thera’, Temple University Aegean Symposium 4 (1979) 1826Google Scholar.

16 Mountjoy, , BSA 69 (1974) 179–80.Google Scholar

17 Betancourt, above n. 10, 36.