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Prehistoric Laconia: A Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2013

Extract

This paper contains a brief summary of the results of researches into the prehistory of Laconia which were conducted mainly during the years 1936–9. It is greatly regretted that a series of varied but compelling impediments has hitherto delayed a proper publication; this, however, will follow as soon as possible.

The map, Fig. 1, is taken from sheet G 13, Kalamai, of the 1/250,000 series dated June 1944. The chronological table lists the sites alphabetically under six regions. The nature of the evidence for each entry is briefly noted, entries without source reference being based on autopsy. Literary sources for the history of pre-Dorian Laconia will not be discussed here.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1956

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page 168 note 1 PM iii. 269 f.; iv. 467, 898.

page 168 note 2 PM iii. 270.

page 168 note 3 The Chronology of Mycenaean Pottery 63.

page 168 note 4 Ibid. 70; Analysis and Classification 540.

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page 170 note 4 Menelaion: both periods, BSA xv. 113 f.; xvi. 4 ff.

page 170 note 5 Sparta: Neolithic, , AM xvi. 52Google Scholar, Athens N.M. 3929–31, 3949, 3979; L.H., III, BSA xxviii. 38.Google Scholar I thank Mr. Cuttle for this reference.

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page 170 note 8 Stefania: Professor Blegen tells me he found Mycenaean sherds on a low hill seawards from the village. Objects made of the porphyry have been found at many L.H. and L.M. sites, notably Mycenae and Ialysos (a list will be given in the main paper).

page 170 note 9 Zasi: unpublished tomb excavated by Th. Karakhalios, the pottery from which is in the Sparta Museum. Two vases published by Mackeprang, in AJA xlii (1938), pl. 21.Google Scholar Furumark, who refers to the site as ‘Geraki’, dates the vases L.H. IIIA2–IIIB.

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page 170 note 12 Monemvasia: Professor Biegen found L.H. sherds at a site near the old village. There is also a small celt of brown stone in Athens, N.M. 4030.

page 170 note 13 Palaiokastro: this was given as the provenience of a group of two seals, a ring, and four beads, purchased by Sir Arthur Evans and given to the Ashmolean Museum. They are made of greenish stone and are of Hittite type.

page 170 note 14 Kambos, : L.H. II and III, EA 1891, 189 ff.Google Scholar

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page 171 note 8 Palaiokhori, : L.H. II, ADelt ix (19221925), parart. 18Google Scholar f., figs. 1–5. Furumark dates these variously L.H. IIA, L.H. IIB, and L.H. IIIA, suggesting (Analysis and Classification 485 n.) that two of the earliest, cups, may be Cretan imports.

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