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Notes from Knossos, Part III
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
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The present contribution in this series of Notes is principally concerned with vases in Heraklion Museum which excavators of Knossos either did not publish or illustrated very sketchily. The vases range in date from MM III/LM I to LM IIIC. Two groups are from Evans's excavations in the Palace and near the Temple Tomb, five pots may be ascribed to Hogarth's tests on Gypsadhes Hill and a further five were found by Forsdyke in the Mavrospelio Cemetery.
Both vases appear on a photograph numbered 465.1 in the Evans archives of the Ashmolean Museum. They were then unrestored and included with them is a much larger amphora decorated with body bands and a disc on the shoulder, Plate 57a. The back of the print has been annotated; Evans gives brief descriptions, stating that the amphora was 48 cm high; Mackenzie ascribes the vases to the ‘Deposit with tripod W of the NE Magazines’ while, at the bottom, is written in Greek in a hand which I take to be that of their foreman ‘In the North Magazines’. It looks as though the excavators were uncertain where the pots had been found and the foreman was called in to help.
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1 In addition to my usual acknowledgement to the Managing Committee for permission to publish material from School excavations, I am in this case especially grateful to Mrs. A. Karetsou and the staff of Heraklion Museum for giving me ready facilities to study and photograph the vases discussed in this article; it could not have been written without their help. Mrs. A. Brown assisted greatly over the Evans photographic archive in the Ashmolean Museum and the authorities of that Museum kindly permitted me to reproduce one photograph here. The drawings were traced by Helen Wilkins of the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford.
2 BSA lxxii (1977) 192 f; the reference in note 20 there should read JHS xxvi (1906) 264.
3 Mackenzie, , PNB 1901, 61Google Scholar; Evans, PM i 571.Google Scholar
4 e.g. the ‘Kapheneion’, the lower deposit in the Corridor of the Sword Tablets, even the Magazine of the Lily Vases.
5 PM ii fig. 195 = BSA lxii (1967) pl. 77a, and compare too the similar though cruder jug from Palaikastro, , BSA lxv (1970) 219 fig. 11.Google Scholar
6 e.g. PM iv fig. 301 k; Popham, LDPK pl. 26c, 2nd sherd.
7 Hogarth mentions that the conical cup with cut-outs and lid, his fig. 14, was coated with Kamares varnish: an exactly similar combination was among the LM II contents of one store in the Unexplored Mansion.
8 Numbered 465 which includes the stone object, Hogarth's fig. 13.
9 One of the few decorated cups with a strap handle among the LM II deposits in the Unexplored Mansion has its handle similarly decorated. For the tricurved arches, see my comments in Notes II, BSA lxxiii (1978) 179 and note 3.
10 BSA xxviii (1926–7) 243 f.
11 Subsequent studies on aspects of the material include Warren, P., Vases, Minoan Stone and Alexiou, St., Kadmos xi (1972) 113 f.Google Scholar (a silver pin with a Linear A inscription).
12 For pendent loops on cups, see BSA lxv (1970) 199 for IIIB, and BSA lv (1965) 291 for IIIC. On paint, see BSA lx (1965) 318.
13 For multiple-stemmed spirals, see n. 12; loc. cit. for IIIB, op. cit. 291 for IIIC.
14 LDPK pls. 15b and 26e, with several examples in the LM II deposits of the Unexplored Mansion.
15 PM iv 962.
16 PM iv fig. 214, and see comments on early LM II marine representations in Notes II, BSA lxxiii (1978) 179 f.
17 It may be that this group of tombs was all LM II/IIIA1 in construction and that a contemporary tomb, BSA li (1956) 68 ff., slightly to the E., is part of the same cemetery.
There is insufficient evidence as yet to trace the development of the side-handled kalathos as distinct from the handleless or basket-handled versions. The latter, with cup on rim, is attested at Karphi, , BSA lv (1960) 12 fig. 7: 6Google Scholar and so resembles our no. 16. The side-handled version is attested for Sub-Minoan in the Spring Chamber, Knossos and Fortetsa Tomb Pi, but it may well begin in IIIC.
18 The version of the Minoan flower with interior loops begins in IIIB but continues into IIIC, for which see the articles cited in note 12.