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A Later Development in the Late Minoan IB Marine Style

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

P.-A. Mountjoy
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A Survey of the Marine Style shows that we may categorize octopods and argonauts into Types A and B, according to the drawing of the suckers in their tentacles. Type A suckers enclose a dot; Type B have no dot. All the instances of Type A and Type B are displayed against a crowded Marine background.

We may further distinguish a third class (Type C) of octopods and argonauts; small compact creatures whose suckers are reduced to knobs, while the argonaut shells are no more than sketchily drawn, the striations being placed haphazardly, either vertically or horizontally. These motifs are displayed against an open background.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 69 , November 1974 , pp. 177 - 180
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1974

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References

Acknowledgements. My thanks are due to the authorities of the Ashmolean Museum, the British Museum, the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, the National Museum Athens, and to the Ephorate at Nauplia for permission to publish sherds from their collections. I should especially like to thank Mervyn Popham for allowing me to include an unpublished sherd from his excavations at Knossos and Mr. J. N. Coldstream and Dr. H. Catling for their help at various stages.

1 Gournia, pl. H.

2 BSA lix (1964) pl. H.

3 Melos, and Palaikastro, PKU pl. 19a.

4 I have not handled this sherd but know of its existence from a photograph kindly shown to me by Mervyn Popham.

5 PKU pl. 21; Pseira, HM. C5410.

6 See a forthcoming article by the author in KrCh.

7 See Kutsamba pl. 4d, and PM iv 327 fig. 270.

8 Kythera Deposits m, n, x.

9 Kythera 302–3.

10 See fragments of rounded cups, BSA lxii (1967) pl. 81 e, bottom row, and BSA lxv (1970) 231 fig. 21.

11 Kythera 60, 62.

12 See Hesperia xli (1972) 396 pl. 95 and Kythera 145 pl. 39 X, 109.

13 PM iv 279 fig. 214.

14 PKU pls. 19a, 21.