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A Note on Two Mycenaean Parasol Kraters1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

Extract

In BSA lxviii I discussed some fragments belonging to a Mycenaean deep bowl krater on which a chariot and a parasol can be identified (Plate 8a). The fragments come from the Citadel House area at Mycenae and date to LH IIIB. The attempt to reconstruct the original representation on the vase centred on the position of the parasol, whether it was inside or outside the chariot. The former was considered the more likely possibility, partly in the light of a few Mycenaean terracotta chariot models which feature parasols. A precise reconstruction could not be made owing to the extremely fragmentary nature of the krater.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1976

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References

2 BSA lxviii (1973) 343 ff. Pl. 59c and fig. 19; also K. A. Wardle, BSA, 328, 331 no. 192.

3 Athens, NM 1511. Cf. Åkerström, , Op. Ath. i (1953) 9 ff.Google Scholar (our illustration is after his fig. 2); also Slenczka, below, n. 5, with bibliography.

4 Figürliche mykenische Keramik aus Tiryns (Tiryns vii (1974), (hereafter: Slenczka).

5 Slenczka, nos. 101A-B pl. 1 a-b; for the vase and its painter also 93 f. no. 1 (Group D), 133 ff. no. 1 (Group IX). He also groups the Mycenae parasol krater with the painter's work, cf. 94 n. 82, 133 no. 5.

6 Cf. Slenczka, no. 115; Catling, H. W., AJA lxxii (1968) 47 nos. 19, 21.Google Scholar

7 Slenczka now agrees to the parasol interpretation (letter of 24.1.1975).

8 Cf. Åkerström, loc. cit. (n. 3), who referred to it as the Tiryns Warrior krater.

9 Ergon 1970, 98 f., fig. 102, and PAE 1970, 122 pl. i68b; also Crouwel, , BSA lxviii 343Google Scholar, 347 n. 118; Slenczka, 93 no. 7.

10 French, E., BSA lxviii, 347 f.Google Scholar pl. 62be and fig. 24.

11 References in BSA lxviii, 345 n. 116.

12 Slenczka nos. 100, 102A-D, 170 are some other new fragments either by the artist himself or painted in his style.