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III. The City and Spring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

Extract

In this section a detailed description of each room will be given, as well as a catalogue of the objects found in it. The numbers given to each object refer to the general catalogue of antiquities from the excavations in Lasithi. Missing numbers in the sequence are from other sites cleared during the three seasons. Only important pottery and variations from the usual proportion of types are mentioned specifically. Rooms generally contained coarse sherds from 3–6 pithoi, pithoid jars, jars, tripods, kalathoi and dishes, and from 1–2 large stirrup-jars, basins, lamps and lids, fine sherds from 4–6 bowls or cups and from 2–3 stirrup-jars, jugs, spouted-jars, pyxides, kraters and kylixes and one or two fragments of blue ware. In bulk coarse sherds averaged about ten times more than fine, but this naturally depended more on the size than on the number of the vessels represented. There were also, as a rule, rough stone grindingslabs, many stone-pounders, fragments of pumice and the remains of animal bones. The different classes of objects are treated separately in section V. The pottery will be discussed in a future article as soon as its study can be completed. The type numbers given below refer to the corpus of shapes which will then be published.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1938

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References

page 69 note 1 Unpublished yet in detail. Cf. JHS LXVII p. 140Google Scholar; LXVIII p. 233.

page 71 note 1 Four metres is regularly the greatest width to be spanned by old-fashioned methods.

page 73 note 1 Cf. the forthcoming City of Akhenaten III.

page 75 note 1 Cf. Vrokastro p. 87.

page 75 note 2 Cf. stone column bases at Tell el-Amarna.

page 80 note 1 If it were not for the fact that the two layers were distinguished by the traces of burning in the lower, it might have been argued that there is evidence here for two stories.

page 87 note 1 JEA XIX p. 3Google Scholar.