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Part II. Ephyraean Ware
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 October 2013
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In the excavations at Korakou in 1915 Blegen first noted Ephyraean Ware as a definite and well-marked style of Mycenaean pottery. Its stratigraphie position places it in Late Helladic II and it is easily recognized in the pottery of that period. The characteristic shape (Fig. 1) is a one- or two-handled goblet with a short stem. Other shapes painted in what may be termed the Ephyraean manner have not yet been distinguished. The one- or two-handled goblet with a short stem is clearly in its form imitated from vessels of metal. This has been well shown by Persson. It may thus be regarded as akin to the ring-stemmed Minyan goblet and its derivatives.
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page 123 note 1 Korakou 54 ff., pls. vi, vii; BSA xxii. 182, pl. x. 2; xlix. 274–6, 279.
page 123 note 2 Furumark, Myc. Pottery, Shape 254.
page 123 note 3 A jug with a cut-away neck from Prosymna (Biegen, Prosymna 415, fig. 681) is decorated in the Ephyraean manner.
page 123 note 4 New Tombs at Dendra 135 ff., fig. 117.
page 123 note 5 PM iv. 359 ff.; Forsdyke, , BMC Greek and Etruscan Vases i, pt. 1, 113, 152, pl. xxxix.Google Scholar
page 123 note 6 e.g. by Furumark in his Mycenaean Pottery 492 ff. His description and discussion do not seem clear and are too much concerned with tectonic and syntactic features. He says the chief characteristics of Ephyraean syntax are ‘free field arrangement and compositional reserve, the ornaments being placed isolatedly in the centre of the field or as an unframed zone at the level of the greatest diameter of the vase’. He, however, considers Ephyraean a definite Mainland ware.
page 124 note 1 Blegen, Prosymna 411 f., especially nos. 525 and 184; Wace, Chamber Tombs 166. Cf. Goldman, , Eutresis 162, 172.Google Scholar
page 126 note 1 BSA 1, pl. 19.
page 126 note 2 BSA xlv. 205 f., figs, 1, 2.
page 126 note 3 BSA 1, pl. 19.
page 126 note 4 PM iv, figs. 302, 306; Pendlebury, Arch. of Crete pl. xxxv. 2; Forsdyke, op. cit. A. 700.
page 126 note 5 BSA xlvii. 262 ff., fig. 9 (1. 2), p1. 55b (iii. 1).
page 126 note 6 Antiquity xxviii. 183 f., pl. viii.
page 127 note 1 To Blegen's list in Korakou, loc. cit., add Zygouries 159, pl. xv. It has also been found in Boeotia at Eutresis, Goldman, Eutresis 188 f., fig. 262.
page 127 note 2 Sherds from the first excavation in the National Museum in Athens.
page 127 note 3 In Rhodes Museum, where my wife and I have seen them thanks to the kindness of Dr. Kontes. The Cretan piece is from a goblet with big chevron-like designs on each side and painted inside. The Mainland piece is a chevron from the lower part of the handle of a goblet. It can be seen in Clara Rhodos x. 108, fig. 58.