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A Prehistoric Site in Western Macedonia and the Dorian Invasion
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The geographical configuration of Western Macedonia, resolved into its simplest elements, may be described as consisting of two parallel depressions, running roughly north-west and south-east, and separated from one another by a mountain range, the whole area being itself entirely enclosed by mountains. The eastern of the two depressions has a northern and a southern half. The northern half is the valley of the upper Černa, the southern is composed of the low land round the western end of Lake Ostrovo, which is connected by a narrow corridor with the valley of the middle Haliákmon. Similarly, the western depression has two well-defined areas. The northern is the basin of Lake Ochrid and the plain of Korytzá; the southern, the basin of the upper Haliákmon and its tributaries.
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page 158 note 1 Heights are as given in Admiralty Handbook, Macedonia and surrounding Territories, 1916. For the geography of the district, cf. also Wace, and Woodward, , B.S.A. xviii. pp. 166, 167Google Scholar. My authority for the spelling of place-names is Col. Schinás, N. Th., Οδοιπορικὸν Μακεδονίας, Athens, 1886Google Scholar. The spelling on the map (Fig. 1) does not always agree.
page 160 note 1 I have not been on the road that connects Servía and Grevená (ibid. 7, and Admiralty Handbook, Route 62), but the country does not seem to present insuperable difficulties even if the road did not exist.
page 160 note 2 Cf. Wace, and Thompson, , Prehistoric Thessaly, p. 254Google Scholar, note 2. I collected sherds here in 1926.
page 161 note 1 Cf. B.S.A. xxvi. p. 34Google Scholar. Also at Armenochóri, near Flórina. Cf. Report for Session 1926–1927, p. 11Google Scholar.
page 161 note 2 Information kindly supplied by Mrs. Hasluck, and by Dr. Keramopoullos.
page 161 note 3 Cf. Casson, , Man, Nov. 1923, p. 172Google Scholar.
page 161 note 4 Cf. Casson, , Macedonia, Thrace and Illyria, p. 172Google Scholar, and Wace, and Woodward, , B.S.A. xviii. p. 182Google Scholar. Cf. also ibid., p. 187.
page 163 note 1 Joint-excavators with myself were Miss H. L. Lorimer and Mr. R. W. Hutchinson. The expenses of the excavation were met by generous grants from the British Association and from the British School at Athens (Macedonian Exploration Fund).
page 163 note 2 The pithos was sunk into virgin soil to a depth of ·8 m. Only the rim projected. It was covered with a round stone slab.
page 165 note 1 The Greek remains are too scanty to merit fuller description. The pottery, which includes some local imitations, ranges from the fifth to the second century.
page 169 note 1 Rey, , Les premiers habitats de la Macédoine (= B.C.H. 41–43)Google Scholar, Planche vii: B.S.A. xxvii. Pl. III (a). Cf. Liverpool Annals, xii. PI. XVI, 3Google Scholar, for a similar type.
page 170 note 1 In jugs of Type 1 d, where neck and body coalesce, the decoration is carried down to the line of the handles (cf. Fig. 12). Pl. XIIIb, 14, is probably from such a jug.
page 172 note 1 This motive decorates a long, vertical handle.
page 173 note 1 Cf. Blegen, Korákou, Fig. 85.
page 174 note 1 Cf. also Casson, Macedonia, Thrace and Illyria, Fig. 63. I have to thank Dr. Makridy Bey for permission to publish the Pátele vases.
page 174 note 2 Or they may be supports for cooking-vessels or for the ‘griddles.’ Cf. Tsountas, Δ–Σ, Figs. 278, 9.
page 177 note 1 Ath. Mitt. xxxv. p. 30Google Scholar, Abb. 10–11, 14.
page 177 note 2 Hall, Vrokastro, Fig. 85, g—l.
page 177 note 3 Belonging to the sub-Mycenaean burial. ᾿Εφ.᾿Αρχ., 1904, p. 30, Fig. 7Google Scholar.
page 177 note 4 Cf. also two pins of this type from Grave po 7 in the Kerameikos, , Ath. Mitt. liGoogle Scholar., Beilage vi. 1.
page 177 note 5 Waldstein, , Argive Heraeum, II, Pl. lxxviii. 89Google Scholar.
page 177 note 6 Aegina, Heiligtum der Aphaia, Tafel 114, 23, 24: a more elaborate type.
page 177 note 7 In the National Museum, Athens.
page 179 note 1 = C2 ware. Cf. B.S.A. xxvii. p. 50, diagramGoogle Scholar.
page 179 note 2 Molyvópyrgo, and Hagios Mámas, excavated by the British School, April, 1928. Cf. also B.S.A. xxvi. p. 32Google Scholar.
page 179 note 3 = Δβ1 ware. Wace, and Thompson, , Prehistoric Thessaly, pp. 180 ffGoogle Scholar.
page 179 note 4 Ibid. p. 113.
page 179 note 5 Ibid. p. 132.
page 179 note 6 A sherd in the collection of the British School at Athens.
page 179 note 7 Wace and Thompson, op. cit. p. 194, note 12, also Hagía Marína.
page 179 note 8 ᾿Αρχ· Δελτίον i. p. 264Google Scholar, Fig. 30, p. 265, Fig. 31.
page 179 note 9 Dörpfeld, , Alt-Ithaka, Band IIGoogle Scholar, Beilage 89 a, b. This pottery is, however, very fragmentary.
page 179 note 10 Cf. B.S.A. xxvii. Plate III (b).
page 179 note 11 Cf. ibid. p. 54.
page 180 note 1 Cf. Frankfort, , Studies, II, Pl. III. 3Google Scholar.
page 180 note 2 Cf. Childe, , Aryans, p. 59Google Scholar.
page 180 note 3 B.S.A. xxvii. p. 14Google Scholar. Some of the Thessalian Γ3 wares are, in fact, indistinguishable from Macedonian A1 wares. Cf. especially Prehistoric Thessaly, Fig. 86, c, d (from Tsáni), and cf. Γ3 vases from Tsanglí (ibid. Figs. 59, 60, 61), and from Zerélia (ibid. Figs. 101, 102, 104a) with A1 wares from Vardaróftsa, , B.S.A. xxviiGoogle Scholar. Pl. I, 1–5, Pl. II (b), and various shapes in Plate IV. In the collection of the British School at Athens are wish-bone handles from the following Thessalian mounds: 50, 60, 103 (cf. Prehistoric Thessaly, pp. 8–11). These sites are not shewn in Pl. XIV. For askoi from Macedonia, , cf. Antiquaries' Journal, viGoogle Scholar. Pl. VIII, Fig. 2, and B.S.A. xxvii. Pl. II (a).
page 181 note 1 Cf. Prehistoric Thessaly, Figs. 125, 126, c, g, h.
page 181 note 2 Cf. ibid. Fig. 134.
page 182 note 1 Cf. B.S.A. xxvii. p. 57Google Scholar.
page 182 note 2 It is scarcely possible to decide whether this pottery belongs to the North Greek or the South Greek matt-painted class. The wish-bone handles are not illustrated.
page 182 note 3 Cf. B.S.A. xxvii. p. 63Google Scholar.
page 183 note 1 Cf. B.S.A. xxvii. p. 21Google Scholar, Fig. 9 and p. 60, Fig. 40.
page 183 note 2 Cf. ᾿Αρχ· Δελτίον, 2, p. 185, Fig. 8.
page 183 note 3 Cf. Alt-Ithaka, Band II, Beilage 72, 6.
page 184 note 1 Cf. Ath. Mitt. xiv. pp. 262 ff.Google Scholar, Tafel xi. 8, 8a, 86.
page 185 note 1 Vases from Pátele are included.
page 185 note 2 Cf. p. 169.
page 185 note 3 Cf. B.S.A. xxvii. Pl. I, 3.
page 185 note 4 The jug from Kilindir provides a specially close parallel. Ant. Journal, vi. Pl. XV, 2.
page 185 note 5 Cf. B.S.A. xxvii. p. 21, Fig. 9Google Scholar.
page 185 note 6 Cf. ibid. Pl. XII (a), 2.
page 187 note 1 The pot-hook spiral does, of course, occur in South Greek matt-painted pottery; cf. Goldman, Excavations at Eutresis, Fig. 41, 8; but it is very rare.
page 187 note 2 Cf. de Genouillac, , Céramique Cappadocienne, IIGoogle Scholar. Pls. 23, 23 bis; Frankfort, , Studies, IIGoogle Scholar, Pls. IX, X, XII, Figs. 16, 17, 19, 20.
page 187 note 3 Cf. B.S.A. xxvii. p. 57Google Scholar.
page 188 note 1 Cf. Frankfort, , Studies, II, p. 171Google Scholar.
page 188 note 2 The ‘recrudescence of Anatolianism’ at the beginning of Period C in Central Macedonia (ca. 1650 B.C.) points in this direction. Cf. pp. 182 f., and B.S.A. loc. cit., p. 59.
page 188 note 3 = D 4 ware, cf. B.S.A. xxvii. p. 28Google Scholar.
page 188 note 4 = A 1 γ ware, cf. ibid. p. 26.
page 188 note 5 = cf ibid.loc. cit.
page 188 note 6 Cf. ibid. pp. 23, 59. Prof. Childe kindly pointed out the affinity. I have since seen numerous specimens of identical ware in the Museum of Pančevo. Cf. Childe, , Mannus, vi. pp. 237Google Scholar, 8.
page 188 note 7 Cf. B.S.A. xxvii. p. 61Google Scholar.
page 190 note 1 Especially 2, with its twin projections.
page 190 note 2 Derived from the wish-bone handles.
page 190 note 3 Cf. Antiquaries' Journal, vii. PI. XV, Fig. 25.
page 190 note 4 Cf. ibid. pp. 56, 57.
page 190 note 5 Cf. ibid. p. 56.
page 191 note 1 Cf. Fig. 30.
page 191 note 2 Cf. Blinkenberg, , Fibules grecques et orientales, p. 136Google Scholar. Type VII, 6c. Spectacle fibulae were also found.
page 191 note 3 In Chalcidice, 1928.
page 192 note 1 Buck, , Greek Dialects (1910), p. 288Google Scholar, and Meyer, E., Gesch. des Altertums, Band II (1928), p. 273Google Scholar: ‘… aber im allgemeinen dem Dorischen nahestand,’ and of their nationality the same writer says, ibid. p. 274 : ‘… so kann doch kein Zweifel sein dass die Makedonen … ein Zweig des griechischen Volkstums gewesen sind.’ Cf. also Tarn, , Antigonos Gonatas, pp. 175–181Google Scholar.
page 192 note 2 Herodotus, i. 56.
page 192 note 3 Exceptions are K. J. Beloch and Max Noubert, Die Dorische Wanderung.
page 192 note 4 Wade-Gery, in Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. II. p. 530Google Scholar.
page 193 note 1 Cf. Hall, Excavations in Eastern Crete, Vrókastro Pl. XXVII, 2, Pl. XXIX, 2. Pl. XXX, Pl. XXXII, 1, from the Chamber Tombs; Fig. 50, E, H, “quasi-Geometric,’ from the Town (note the pot-hook spiral attached to a latticed triangle in H); Fig. 52, ‘mature Geometric’ from the Town. Cf. also Prehistoric Thessaly, p. 255.
page 194 note 1 I had formed this opinion before reading Prof. Childe's Aryans, where a similar view is expressed (p. 59). Prof. Childe over-estimates, I think, the Balkan character of the Macedonian pottery which appears in Thessaly at this time.
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