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Post-Minoan Terracottas from Knossos
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
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With one exception (no. 36) these terracottas all come from excavations in the neighbourhood of the Royal Road conducted between 1957 and 1961. They are a mixed lot, and the stratigraphy, although carefully observed, is seldom very helpful. They range from the Geometric to the Roman period. Apart from a few correspondences with pieces from the Demeter Sanctuary on Gypsades at Knossos, these figurines find few parallels in Crete or elsewhere, and serve to underline our essential ignorance of post-Minoan Cretan terracottas.
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Acknowledgements. My thanks are due to the Trustees of the British Museum for giving me Special Leave to study this material; to the Managing Committee of the British School at Athens for granting me the necessary funds; to Mr. Sinclair Hood for taking most of the photographs; to Messrs. Nicolas Coldstream and Sinclair Hood for assistance at every stage; and to Dr. S. Alexiou for constant help in the Archaeological Museum, Heraklion.
Abbreviations additional to those in standard use:
BMC i = British Museum Catalogue of Terracottas, i (1954).
Brock, Fortetsa = Brock, J. K., Fortetsa (Cambridge, 1957).Google Scholar
Higgins, Greek TC = Higgins, R. A., Greek Terracottas (London, 1967).Google Scholar
Laumonier, Madrid TC = Laumonier, A., Catalogue de terres cuites du Musée Archéologique de Madrid (Bordeaux and Paris, 1921).Google Scholar
Louvre Cat. = Mollard-Besques, S., Musée Nationale du Louvre: Catalogue raisonné des figurines …, i (Paris, 1954)Google Scholar; ii (Paris, 1963).
Thompson, Troy TC = Thompson, D. B., Troy Supplementary Monograph iii: The Terracotta figurines of the Hellenistic Period (Princeton, 1963).Google Scholar
Winter = Winter, F., Die Typen der figürlichen Terrakotten (Berlin and Stuttgart, 1903).Google Scholar
1 To be published shortly.
2 Except for those of the seventh century B.C., which are very poorly represented here.
3 Higgins, Greek TC, pl. 6c.
4 Cf. BCH xciii (1969) 652, fig. 1, pls. xv, xvi.
5 No. 27 in the forthcoming publication.
6 And see p. 60 for reasons for dating.
7 No. 56 in the forthcoming publication.
8 No. 157 in the forthcoming publication.
9 Higgins, Greek TC, pl. 23F. No. 161 in the forthcoming publication.
10 For style, cf. Louvre Cat. ii, pls. 156 ff.
11 Thompson, Troy TC, 87.
12 BMC i, no. 1524; cf. also Winter i. 88: 3 for the complete type.
13 No. 3689 (unpublished). For the deposit from which it comes, see Ann. N.S. iii–v (1941–3) 52 ff.
14 Kerameikos iv, pls. 31–2.
15 Ann. N.s. iii–v (1941–3) 53, fig. 37. Not closely datable; see no. 34.
16 No. 260 in the forthcoming publication.
17 BSA lvii (1962) pl. 5d.
18 See Higgins, , Greek TC 22, pl. 8B.Google Scholar Also ADelt xxii (1967) Chr. pl. 70α (PG).
19 Myres, J. L., Metropolitan Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus (New York, 1914) 68 f.Google Scholar, no. 526.
20 Brock, Fortetsa, pl. 107.
21 Cf. Payne, Protokorinthische Vasenmalerei, pl. 20: 1.
22 Cf. the ornament referred to in n. 2 (Corinthian); and that in Brock, Fortetsa, pl. 187, 9bu (Cretan). Other Cretan lion-vases: Boardman, Cretan Collection, pl. xxii, top right; BSA lvii (1962) pl. 5ƒ and g; Apollo (Jan. 1971) 15, fig. 10.
23 Richter, G. M. A., Animals in Greek Sculpture (Oxford, 1930) fig. 30.Google Scholar
24 Délos xxiii, nos. 1285 ff.; BCH xlix (1925) 338 fig. 14.