¹ SIMA 35 – S. Symeonoglou – Kadmeia I: Mycenean finds from Thebes, Greece. Excavations at 14 Oedipus St.

² Tournavitou, I. – Towards an Identification of a Workshop Space, in Problems in Greek Prehistory, 447–468, 452 ‘When and if raw material is found, it is more likely to be in a storage context, either in the actual workshop space or in a separate storeroom’.Google Scholar

³ Tournavitou, ibid, ‘Judging from our sample of sites, no raw elephant ivory has been found on the Mainland, very little stone, or metal ores, and none of the other perishable materials like wool, wine, oil, etc.’.

⁴ Tournavitou, ibid. 453.

⁵ E.J. Peltenburg – The Oriental Character of Faience Vessels from the House of Shields, Mycenae, paper delivered in the 6th Intern. Colloquium of Aegean Prehistory, ‘The Prehistoric Aegean and its Relations to Adjacent Areas’ Athens, Sept. 1987.

⁶ In her text, Dr Phillipson gives a comprehensive summary of the evidence concerning each of the three techniques, that she considers as intrusive at Thebes, namely: Inlaying of jewellery with Lapis Lazuli stone, Wire making – a basic process employed for filigree work, and Inlaying of metal articles with gold.

⁷ Hood, S. – The Arts in Prehistoric Greece, 1978, Ch.g, 207.Google Scholar

⁸ ‘A specialised industry for the making of ivory carved furniture parts may also be identified in the area near the jewellery workshop at 14 Oedipus St. The large number of carved ivory pieces found consist primarily of furniture inlays, attachments, flat strips and moulds. The four large plaques which survive exhibit certain Oriental elements, as for example, the occurrence of crossed bodies of animals in one of the plaques, a motif common in Mesopotamia and the Levant in the 15th and 14th centuries. Oriental affinities are also evident in a pair of ivory carved furniture legs discovered in another area of the Kadmeia, at 28 Pelopidou St. The possible existence of an industry specialising in ivory furniture parts at Thebes, may indicate that the carvers followed a manufacturing tradition which was imported from the Levant. This particular craft flourished there from the 16th until the 7th centuries, and the most typical products were ivory decorated furniture parts’.

⁹ Symeonoglou, ibid.

¹⁰ Tournavitou, – paper delivered in the Mycenean Seminar, London, Jan. 1989, and in unpublished PhD thesis, University of Manchester, 1989.Google Scholar

¹¹ Tournavitou, 1989, ibid.

¹² Symeonoglou, ibid.

¹³ Symeonoglou, ibid.