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Sub-Mycenaean and Protogeometric Vases in the Museum of the British School at Athens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

R.W.V. Catling
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Eleven Sub-Mycenaean and Protogeometric vases from the museum of the British School at Athens are published. Five are treated in Desborough's Protogeometric Pottery but the remainder are presented for the first time. Although none has a reliable provenance, all but one seem to be of Attic origin and were probably found in Athens. The other one comes from the Thessalo-Euboian region, most likely from Euboia itself.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 85 , November 1990 , pp. 37 - 46
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1990

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Abbreviations

Asine II 4:1–3 = Wells, B., Asine II. Results of the Excavations East of the Acropolis 1970–1974. Fasc. 4. The Protogeometric Period. Parts 1–3 (Stockholm 1976–1983)Google Scholar

Charisterion = Charisterion eis Anastasion K. Orlandon 1–4 (Athens 1965–8)

Hesperia Suppl. 16 = Langdon, M.K., A Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Hymettos (Hesperia Suppl. 16. Princeton 1976)Google Scholar

Kos = Morricone, L., ASAtene NS 45 (1978)Google Scholar ‘Sepolture della prima Età del Ferro a Coo’

PGRT = Verdelis, N.M.O Protogeometrikos Ruthmos tes Thessalias (Athens 1958)Google Scholar

1 Once more I am grateful to the Managing Committee of the British School for their permission to publish these vases. I also wish to thank Dr H.W. Catling, former Director, and Guy Sanders, Assistant Director, for facilitating my study in the museum of the School. Richard Jones kindly lent equipment for studying the fabric of the vases. The drawings are by Elizabeth Catling. All are gratefully thanked.

2 Most conveniently seen by comparing the drawing of 1 in Fig. 1 with the drawings of SM amphoriskoi JdI 103 (1988) 11 fig. 8.

3 Ker I, pls. 43 Inv. 611 (dated LPG by Desborough (PGP, 28–9) for no compelling reason), 44 (= CVA Heidelberg 3, pl. 100, 3–4), 65 Inv. 550; Ker IV, pl. 4 Inv. 923; AD 22 (1967) Chr, pl. 85c. These features are also present on some SM belly amphoras: Ker I, pl. 32 Inv. 529; BSA 75 (1980) 21 no. 6, pl. 3d.

4 PGP 50–1, 53–5; GGP, 9–11. For examples see Ker IV, pl. 16 (LPG); AD 19 (1964) Chr, 55–6, pl. 51b (LPG/EG); AD 28 (1973) Mel, 29–30, pl. 18c–f (LPG); Hesperia 43 (1974) 382–3, pls. 79d (EG), 80a.

5 On lekythoi in general see PGP, 69–77. Add to Desborough's list the following from Attika: AAA 3 (1970) 177, fig. 10; AD 28 (1973) Mel, 28–9, pls. 17e–g and 18a, 33, pl. 21e–f, 49, pl. 35a, 53, pl. 40a; 29 (1973–4) Chr, 41, pl. 51a, 97, pl. 78e; AE 1953–4:3, 91 no. 4, fig. 4; AM 81 (1966) 6 Gr. 4, 1, pl. 10, 3; Hesperia 23 (1954) 58, pl. 16c; 24 (1955) 217–8, pl. 77 nos. 37–8; 30 (1961) 159–63 nos. 12–33, pls. 25–6; 42 (1973) 398–400, pl. 73c.

6 PGP, 198, pl. 29C; cf p. 110.

7 Lefkandi I, 348–50, pls. 140 P. 22, 5 and 7, 212b. Rather surprisingly, Desborough did not compare them to our vases.

8 Jones, R.E., Greek and Cypriot Pottery (Athens 1986) 629–31.Google Scholar

9 Corinth: Corinth VII:1, 6 no. 7, pl. 1; 10–11 nos. 24–7, pls. 3–4 (different form). Argos, : BCH 81 (1957) 655, fig. 35Google Scholar; AAA 2 (1969) 159, fig. 3. Tiryns, : Tiryns I, 141, pl. 14, 6Google Scholar; Tiryns V, 17, pl. 22, 5; AM 78 (1963) 48 Gr. III, 1, pl. 23, 1. This type of decoration is found on other shapes at Lefkandi (e.g. Lefkandi I, pls. 135 P. 18, 4 (jug), 148 P. 44, 1, 150 P. 47, 2–3 (amphoriskoi), 191 T. Pyre 4, 4 (amphora)) and Corinth, (Hesperia 17 (1948) 205 B5, pl. 71 (lekythos)Google Scholar; 39 (1970) 17 no. 18, pl. 9 (belly amphora) in the same periods.

10 PGP, 66–9.

11 Lefkandi I, 322–4.

12 AE 1985, 66 no. 17, fig. 4, pl. 15; 78 (date).

13 PGRT, 19 no. 35, pl. 5 (no provenance). Lefkandi I, pl. 170 T. 4, 1.

14 PGP, 106–9; GGP, 11, 14.

15 In Europa: Studien zur Geschichte und Epigraphik der frühen Ägäis. Festschrift für E. Grumach (Berlin 1967) 75–9, pl. 5.

16 Vello: Corinth VII.1, 6 no. 8, pl. 1. Mycenae, : BSA 50 (1955) 240 T. PG 602, 1, pl. 47f.Google Scholar Kos: Kos, 171 S. 22, 9, fig. 307.

17 In general see Lefkandi I, 327–30. For parallels see op. cit., pls. 102 S. 33, 9–12 (SPG II), 131 P. 12, 3 (SPG I), 133 P. 13, 9 (SPG I/II), 136 P. 21, 6 (SPG II), 155 P. Pyre 34, 3 and 5 (SPG I), 180 T. 23, 6 (SPG I/II). Tiryns, : Tiryns VIII, 27 pl. 33, 1Google Scholar (= Führer durch Tiryns, 156, fig. 66).

18 PGP, 85–6.

19 AD 19 (1964) Chr, 55–6, pl. 51c. Add to Desborough's list the following examples – Attic, : BSA 77 (1982) 218 T. 39, 17, pl. 18Google Scholar (from Lefkandi). Argos, : BCH 95 (1971) 748, fig. 19.Google ScholarTiryns, : BCH 99 (1975) 613, fig. 55.Google ScholarAsine, : Asine II 4:1, 19 no. j, 26, figs. 27 and 34fGoogle Scholar; Asine II 4:3, 204 no. 269 fig. 146, 248 nos. 655–6, figs. 184 and 187. Lefkandi, : Lefkandi I, pl. 182 T. 26, 1.Google Scholar The Argive examples are distinguished from the Attic by having an asymmetrical arrangement, usually of chequerboard and net; the Lefkandian example follows the Attic symmetrical scheme.

20 BSA 75 (1980) 22–3 no. 14, pl. 3c; Ker I, pl. 61 Inv. 770.

21 Ker I, pls. 63–4 Inv. 554–5.

22 Its condition may be compared with another Attic skyphos, : AE 1953–4:3, 91 no. 5, fig. 5.Google Scholar

23 PGP, 86–9.

24 A band of opposed diagonals decorates a small crater found on Hymettos: Hesperia Suppl. 16, 56 no. 194, pl. 17.

25 Ker IV, pls. 15 and 20.

26 Eg AD 28 (1973) Mel, 28, pl. 17d.

27 GGP, 12, 15.

28 Attika, : Hesperia 2 (1933) 553 no. 5, fig. 11Google Scholar; 30 (1961) 167, pl. 27 Ker. Inv. 609; AD 28 (1973) Mel, 30, pl. 19b–c; Hesperia Suppl. 16, 56 no. 195, p. 17; Thorikos 1963 (Brussels 1968) 84, figs. 101–2. Naxos, : ASAtene NS 45 (1983) 123, fig. 8.Google Scholar Thera: Dragendorff, H., Thera II (Berlin 1903) 30, fig. 81.Google Scholar ?Melos: CVA Würzburg 1, pl. 4.

29 Ker IV, pl. 34 Inv. 1266.

30 GGP, 11, pl. 1c.

31 Compare the Attic SM amphoriskoi from the Kerameikos, (Ker I, pls. 16–20Google Scholar, Hesperia 30 (1961) 175–6 Inv. 2161–6, pl. 31) and Salamis (OpAth 4 (1962) 113–4, pls. 5–7).

32 AD 3 (1917) 29–30, fig. 27.

33 PGP, 196; AD 3 (1917) 26, fig. 20.

34 Charisterion 2, 253 no. 6, pl. 46b.

35 Lefkandi I, pls. 100 S. 29, 3, 106 S. 51, 1, 129 PP. 9, 1, 173 T. 12B, 1; PGRT, 18 no. 31, pl. 5 (Kapakli region), 55, pl. 15, 7 (Naxos); AD 3 (1917) 31, fig. 29.

36 Ker I, pl. 36 Heidelberg Gr. A (= CVA Heidelberg 3, pl. 102, 1). A rather later but still early jug, allegedly from Alyki, bears the same ornament: CVA Heidelberg 3, pl. 102, 6. Desborough (PGP, 68) refers to another unpublished example from the Athenian Agora.

37 BCH 110 (1986) 97 no. 22, figs. 23a and c. The vase is dated LPG by Andreiomenou (op. cit., 112) though she recognizes its MPG character (op. cit., 106).

38 In general see Lefkandi I, 308–11.