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An Early Helladic II Tomb by Lake Vouliagmeni, Perachora

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

Elis Hatzipouliou-Kalliri
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Abstract

A rock-cut tomb excavated in 1978 at the south-west end of Lake Vouliagmeni, Perachora, contained the remains of some ten skeletons, and a large quantity of EH II pottery. The best-preserved examples of the pottery are described, and parallels for them adduced. It is argued that the tomb is an ossuary rather than a simultaneous burial.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 78 , November 1983 , pp. 369 - 375
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1983

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Acknowledgements. I would like to thank the Ephor Mrs. Krystalli for permission to publish the material. I would also like to thank Professor R. A. Tomlinson for his kind invitation to publish the article in the BSA and for reading and correcting my English manuscript. Finally, I am deeply grateful to the Ephor Dr. Demakopoulou for reading the text and making useful criticisms and her unfailing assistance. Photographs are due to Miss Ino Ioannidou.

Abbreviations. The following abbreviations are employed in addition to those in standard use:

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2 Eutresis 113 fig. 151. 3.

3 Alt-Ägina Taf. 82 115. viii.

4 For the EH II painted pottery see Donovan 5–19 (especially the distribution), Hesperia 29 (1960) 292, Tiryns IV 14, Anatolia 65.

5 Hesperia 29 (1960) pl. 51. viii. 28.

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11 Cf. Hesperia 29 (1960) 291 fig. 1, type I.

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33 Hesperia (1960) 291 fig. 1.

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39 Hesperia 27 (1958) 144; Sakellariou-Faraklas 31; Renfrew, op. cit. 115; Emergence 204; CAH 3 773, 784, 797; Hanschmann 158 n. 495.

40 Cf. Hesperia 29 (1960) pl. 51.

41 Hanschmann 183.

42 Hesperia 29 (1960) 291 fig. 1.

43 Cf. Hanschmann, Beil. 30. 28.

44 Cf. Tiryns VI fig. 2.

45 Ibid. 3.

46 Cf. Zygouries fig. 109.

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49 Hesperia 29 (1960) 290 and n. 10; ADelt 17 (1961–2) Mel. pl. 49b.

50 Hesperia 29 (1960) 290.

51 Ibid. 290 n. 11.

52 Topic must be treated in Fahy, L., ‘The Early Helladic Sauceboat’ (Unpublished M.A. thesis, Univ. of Cincinnati 1962).Google Scholar Unfortunately I have not been able to consult this.

53 Hesperia 29 (1960) 290.

54 Hesperia 24 (1955) 145.

55 Hesperia 29 (1960) 165, 292; Hanschmann 159.

56 Cf. AE 1898 pl. 9.34; 1899 pls. 8.12, 9.20, 9.22.

57 See above p. 000.

58 BSA 26 (1923–5) 44 n. 3.

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