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Bronze-Age Vases from Zakro

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

In describing the recent excavations at Zakro (Annual of the British School at Athens, vii. p. 121 ff.) I stated that the pottery found there could not be fully published yet. Pending the resumption of its study, however, three vases of exceptional excellence, which were copied in Candia by Monsieur E. Gilliéron, may be made known. One of these (No. 1) was found in fragments in the principal house (A) of the Lower Town (ibid. p. 129 ff.), which yielded also the hoard of sealings published in the previous issue of this Journal. The precise findspot was the doorway between the rooms 3 and 5 (v. plan, ibid. p. 131), which. I believe to have contained a stairway of two flights leading to an upper level or storey. These rooms were full of collapsed ruin, among which the fragments of this vase were dispersed. I offered a special reward, and had all sherds dug out of this house minutely examined; but about a third of the vase was not recovered. Part of a second vase (lip and neck) of precisely similar character came from the same rubbish. The other two vases (Nos. 2, 3) figured in the accompanying Plate (XII.) were built up from fragments found in the Λάκκος (Pit I.) on the western spur (ibid. p. 126) among countless sherds of Bronze-Age pottery of the best Cnossian period.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1902

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References

1 Mr.Bosanquet, R. C., in alluding to this vase in his annual Report on Archaeology in Greece (J.H.S. xxi. p. 339)Google Scholar, compared a Keftiu form temp. Dynasty xviii. If he was thinking of the slender vase which is figured with the Keftiu tribute in the Rekhmara tomb, the parallel is not very close, for that vase has a foot and no visible handle. The lip, neck, and upper part of the body, however, correspond to my vase well enough.

2 E.g. the Vaphio goblets, and the Mycenae dagger blades and ‘siege’ vase, according to Pottier, M. Edmond (Revue de Paris, March 1902, p. 175)Google Scholar and even more objects according to Zahn, M. (Jahrbuch, 1901, Anz. p. 23)Google Scholar.

3 In a paper read before the British School at Athens in the spring of 1901, but not yet printed.