K. Theodoridis (2016), Mycenaean Ceramic Vases of an Achaeological Private Collection

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AchaiosStudies presented to Professor

Thanasis I. Papadopoulos

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Evangelia Papadopoulou-ChrysikopoulouVassilis Chrysikopoulos

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Contents

INTRODUCTION ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ix

ThaNasIs I� PaPaDOPOUlOs ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� xiProfessor Emeritus at the University of Ioannina

BIBlIOGRaPhY 1973 – 2015 ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� xiv

PaRTICIPaNTs ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� xix

FUNERaRY MONUMENTs aND laNDsCaPE: ThE EXaMPlE OF ThE MIDDlE hEllaDIC TUMUlI IN MEssENIa ������1IPPOKRATIS ANGELETOPOULOS

MYCENaEaN FIGURINEs ON CYPRUs ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������13† PAUL ÅSTROM

FOOT OF a BRONZE FIGURE FROM ThE MINOaN PEaK saNCTUaRY aT aYIOs YEORGIOs sTO VOUNO, KYThERa ������19EMILIA BANOU

WaRRIORs IN MOVEMENT: WaRRIOR BURIals IN EasTERN CRETE DURING laTE MINOaN IIIC ��������������������������23DIMITRIS G. BASAKOS

EIN ZUTRUNK FüR DEN FREUND ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������33† HANS G. BUCHHOLZ

ThE Mh CEMETERY aT KOUPhOVOUNO, sPaRTa, laKONIa ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������45WILLIAM CAVANAGH AND † CHRISTOPHER MEE

aTTIC BlaCK-FIGURED CUPs FROM aMBElaKI, salaMIs ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������53YANNIS CHAIRETAKIS

ThE PROTOGEOMETRIC sETTlEMENT aT sTaMNa, aETOlIa� sOME ThOUGhTs ON ThE sETTlERs’ ORIGIN BasED ON ThE TYPOlOGY OF ThE GRaVEs ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������59

GIOULIKA CHRISTAKOPOULOU

a sCaRaB aND aN OVOID sEal PlaQUE: EGYPTIaN OR EGYPTIaNIZING OBJECTs FROM a CROssROaDs IN ThE JORDaN VallEY �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������77

VASSILIS CHRYSIKOPOULOS

sOME REFlECTIONs ON WEsTERN GREECE IN ThE laTE BRONZE aND EaRlY IRON aGEs ������������������������������������81SØREN DIETZ

l’ ÉGYPTIEN, lE BEDOUIN ET la TRaNsJORDaNIE �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������93JEAN-CLAUDE GOYON

NEW aRChaEOlOGICal DaTa FOR EaRlY ChRIsTIaN aND EaRlY BYZaNTINE salaMIs� ThE CasE OF a BURIal COMPlEX aT aIaNTEIO ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������97

GEORGE KAKAVAS AND SOPHIA ZYRBA

laRGE sTORaGE JaRs IN ThE MYCENaEaN GRaVEs OF aChaEa: a BRIEF INTRODUCTION�������������������������������� 103SOFIA KASKANTIRI

ON MINERal aND aRTIFICIal PIGMENTs OF ThEOPhRasTUs OF EREssOs FROM ThE lIBRaRY TO ThE FIElD REsEaRCh ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 109

THOMAS KATSAROS

ThE MIDDlE NEOlIThIC PaTTERN PaINTED POTs FROM ThE CaVE OF CYClOPs: REVIEWING OlDER ThEORIEs �������117STELLA KATSAROU-TZEVELEKI

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GOlD BUll’s hEaD ORNaMENTs FROM ThE TIRYNs hOaRD aND ThE DIsTRIBUTION OF ThE TYPE IN ThE lh IIIC PERIPhERY OF ThE MYCENaEaN WORlD ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������127

ELENI KONSTANTINIDI-SYVRIDI

RIsE IT UP! a CONTRIBUTION TO UNDERsTaNDING TEll FORMaTION� ThE EVIDENCE FROM PaRTIClE sIZE aNalYsIs ON aRChaEOlOGICal sEDIMENTs aND BUIlDING MaTERIals FROM ThE NEOlIThIC TEll sITE aT PalIaMBElla (N� GREECE) ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������137

DIMITRIS KONTOGIORGOS

NEW EVIDENCE FOR MINOaN RElaTIONs WITh IThaCa ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������143† LITSA KONTORLI-PAPADOPOULOU

aN OVERVIEW OF TREPaNaTION IN aNCIENT GREECE ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������153MARIA A. LISTON, SHERRY C. FOX & LESLIE P. DAY

a shRINE WIThIN ThE sOVEREIGN COMPlEX ON ThE MYCENaEaN aCROPOlIs OF salaMIs ���������������������������159YANNOS G. LOLOS

MINOaN PREPalaTIal PERIBOlOs OF aMNIssOs, CRETE ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������165STELLA MANDALAKI

ON MYCENaEaN hYDREa: shERDs FROM ThE aCROPOlIs aT ChORIZa �����������������������������������������������������������177CHRISTINA MARABEA

WhO OWNs ThE ROsETTa sTONE? EGYPTIaN aNTIQUITIEs aND “ElGINIsM” ��������������������������������������������������185MARGARITA NICOLAKAKI-KENTROU

ΤΩ ΑΡΙΣΤΩ ΠΑΤΡΙ. TERRAMARE, MYCENAEAN CENTERS AND THE ROLE OF THE ADRIATIC DURING THE LATE BRONZE aGE: ThE INTERCUlTURal ROlE OF ThE aDRIaTIC: ThE “WaY OF ThE aMBER” aT ThE END OF ThE laTE BRONZE aGE sEEN FROM a NaUTICal POINT OF VIEW ����������������������������������������������������������������195

STAVROS OIKONOMIDIS

PREhIsTORIC VasEs FROM a PRIVaTE COllECTION IN JORDaN ������������������������������������������������������������������������203EVANGELIA PAPADOPOULOU-CHRYSIKOPOULOU

TIEs OF aFFECTION BURIals OF PaRENTs aND ChIlDREN IN ThE MYCENaEaN CEMETERY OF ClaUss, NEaR PaTRas �����207KONSTANTINOS PASCHALIDIS

aChaIa: EasTERN aND WEsTERN ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������219MICHALIS PETROPOULOS

ThE sEREMETI MONKEY �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������233JACKIE PHILLIPS

sOME FREsh ThOUGhTs ON ThE UsE OF ThE MINOaN “sTRaINER” ����������������������������������������������������������������241LEFTERIS PLATON

MYCENaEaN CERaMIC VasEs OF aN aRChaEOlOGICal PRIVaTE COllECTION �������������������������������������������������255KOSTAS THEODORIDIS

ThE IMPORTaNCE OF ThE IONIaN aND alBaNIaN COasT FOR MaRITIME COMMUNICaTION DURING ThE BRONZE aGE �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������261

AKIS TSONOS

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The presented in this article Mycenaean vases comprise a part of a big legal private collection of antiquities, kept within Greek territory, and were recently catalogued by the author in the course of his official and professional duties as archaeologist at the Ephorate of Antique Dealers and Private Archaeological Collections1 (Ε.Α.D.P.Α.C.).

The collection consists of a total of 265 ancient objects. There are included artifacts representative of all ancient periods (from prehistoric to Roman times), almost all categories (vases, figurines, small objects) and almost all main raw materials (clay, marble, glass, metal).

Among the objects of this private collection, a total of 25 Mycenaean items was catalogued, part of which is here introduced for the first time2. Because these particular objects lack any association with basic and often clarifying stratigraphical observations and archaeological data, as the area of their provenance remains unknown, we are confined within the limits of an approach and classification based solely on their typology and, then, through it we can date them and make an attempt to reconstruct the archaeological context these artifacts might have been “retrieved” from.

The presentation of four unpublished Mycenaean vases of the private collection, in the form of a descriptive catalogue with the necessary, of course, typological and

chronological comments, serves as a small token of gratitude to my professor, Athanasios Papadopoulos, who has shown us great patience and love all these years and continues to tolerate us…

1. Beaked jug (FIG.1). Height: 0,058m. Body diameter:0,06m. Base diameter: 0,022m.

1 At this point I would like to thank, first of all, the recently deceased Demetres Kazianis, Director of the Ephorate of Antique Dealers and Private Archaeological Collections, for granting me permission to study and publish all the Mycenaean items of the collection. I also thank Mr. D.M., to whom the collection belongs, for the vivid enthusiasm and great kindness in giving his consent for the study and publication of this assemblage. To my professor, Athanasios Papadopoulos, I owe special thanks for reading the text and making, as always, constructive comments. 2 The “Mycenaean collection” of Mr. D.M.’s comprises a total of 25 objects, among which 19 are intact vases (Private collection nos 113-128, 130, 260, 264), 5 are figurines (Private Collection nos 1-4, 259), while the most important object of the collection is a fragment of a pictorial ceramic vase, preserving a representation of human figure and horse (Private Collection no. 129). All of the aforementioned objects, for which a comprehensive permit for study and publication has been granted, will appear in another study by the author.

Private Collection no. 115 Provenance unknown FS 149. LH IIIA2.

Miniature beaked jug, complete, mended at the neck and handle and slightly restored on the rim. Surface extensively but lightly chipped and flaked. Fabric fine light brown with shiny slip of similar colour. Paint ranging from black to red, due to uneven firing, flaky in places. Body squat globular, ending at a ring base. Neck low, of concave outline, with a plastic ridge at its base, a feature quite common on ceramic vases that imitate metal prototypes. The beak-like spout is short and small, while opposite it a vertical strap handle is attached from rim to upper shoulder. The handle, ring base and rim are monochrome as opposed to the mouth, on the exterior, the beak-like spout and base of neck, which display single carelessly drawn bands. The vase shoulder is reserved, but two groups of broad and fine bands decorate the remaining of the body.

The beaked jug, as a type3, appears for the first time in the Mycenaean repertoire in the LH IIA period4, represented by four variations5, among which the high conical-piriform type (FS 141) gains the biggest popularity and widest distribution6. The beaked jug, in general, survives up to the LH IIIB period, although Furumark7 cites certain later specimens from Rhodes (FS 148),

3 Furumark I, 606-608, beaked jug: forms 40-41, FS 140-149; Furumark III, pls 78-83. 4 Mountjoy 1994, 21; Demakopoulou 1988, 56; Dickinson 1992, 30-32; Furumark I, 606, cites as a single earlier example a beaked jug from shaft grave I of Grave Circle A at Mycenae, dating it to the LH I period (FS 140). However, according to the revision of the LH II material by Dickinson 1972, 103-112, this particular vase should be dated to the LH IIA period, see Mountjoy 1999, 92:47, fig. 14:47.5 see Furumark I, 606-607, 656 (FS 140, FS 141, FS 142a and FS 143); Furumark I, 607, places the onset of FS 143 in the LH ΙΙΒ period. Nevertheless, the already known examples from Prosymna (Blegen 1937, 222, fig. 565; Shelton 1996, 150:995), Melos (Renfrew et al. 2007, 330; Dawkins and Droop 1910-11, pl. 11:140; Atkinson et al. 1904, 145, pl. XXXI:1), as well as Messenia (Routsi: Daux 1957, 562, 565, fig. 29, Nichoria: McDonald and Wilkie et al. 1992, 529, pl. 9-27:P3367), point to an earlier dating for the shape in the LH IIA period. 6 Specimens of the conical-piriform type (FS 141) are known from the Argolid (Wace 1932, 161, 173, pl. 3; Demakopoulou 1988, 92 no. 19; Deilaki 1973, 92, pl. 91:a), Attica (Buchholz and Karageorghis 1973, 70:903, 309), Kythera (Mountjoy 1984, 201:5; Coldstream and Huxley 1972, 137, pl. 36:34-36, fig. 96), Elis (Gialouris 1965, 12, pl. 7), Messenia (Blegen et al. 1973, 173, figs 234:23, 235:7; McDonald and Wilkie et al. 1992, pl. 9-21:P3238, pls 9-46:P3296), Melos (Renfrew et al. 2007, 330, fig. 8.16:339-340; Mountjoy 1984, 202:5-6), Keos (Mountjoy 1984, 198:8).7 Furumark I, 607.

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which he dates to the early LH IIIC period. The vase of the collection belongs to the category of small beaked jugs (FS 149)8 and, in fact, represents the small, about 10 cm high, version of type FS 145. It is introduced in the LH IIB period9 and remains in use up to the end of the LH IIIB period10. The shape of the vase, as a rule, is globular or squat globular with short spout. The body is decorated with bands; a narrow reserved zone appears on the shoulder where prevail the motifs of foliate band and wavy line, running spiral, parallel chevrons, quirk, V- and U-shaped patterns and chevrons11. In contrast to the remainder of examples, on the vase of the collection the narrow shoulder zone is plain, a rare feature, met only once again on a vase of the LH IIIA2 period from a grave at Dimini12. On the basis of this typological parallel, the vase of the collection should be dated to the LH IIIA2 period.

2.Amphoroid jug (FIG.2). Height: 0,201m. Bodydiameter: 0,135m. Base diameter: 0,055m. Private Collection no. 122 Provenance unknown FS 150.FM 46:54 and 49:10-11. Early LH IIIA2.

Complete amphoroid jug13, slightly restored at the mouth, chipped in a few places, fissured and exceedingly flaked. Fabric fine light brown, slip of similar colour, paint ranging from black to red, due to uneven firing, flaky in places. Body conical-piriform, expanding at the shoulder; high neck of concave outline, with big beak-like spout and plastic ridge at its base. Two vertical strap handles from rim to upper shoulder. Base raised cylindrical, slightly broadened, with a small hole on its underside. The neck, spout, lower part of the body, including the base, as well as the handles are monochrome, while a fine band decorates the rim on the interior. On the shoulder, decoration consists of simple running spiral (FM 46:54)14, which is interrupted at the handles and, thus, two decorative sectors are formed differing, however, from each other. One of these displays four large spirals and the other five not equally sized spirals, since one is smaller than the other four and overlies the

8 Furumark I, 607-608: small, low beaked jug; Furumark III, pl. 83. 9 see Lerna: Daux 1957, 540, fig. 2; Furumark I, 607-608 dates the introduction of this shape to the LH IIIA1 period. 10 see Mountjoy 1999, 415, fig. 145:43; Papadopoulos 1978/79, 92-93, 219, fig. 151:e-f, dates it to the later part of the LH IIIA2 period. 11 see Blegen 1937, figs 235, 274, 373, 572; Brodbeck-Jucker 1986, fig. 8:26; Mylonas 1975Β, 202, where it is characterized as “juglet with a cutaway spout”, and Mylonas 1975Γ, pl. 191:d; Hiller 1975, 92, taf. 29:266-268; Benzi 1975, 307-308, tav. XXVI:441-442; Benzi 1992, pl. 54:g, 90:d, 154:i; Zachariadou 1978, 266-267, pl. 74:d-e; Charitonides 1961/62, 46-47, pl. 16:d (left), 17:b; Charitonides 1952, 23-24, 27-28, fig. 12; Kontorli-Papadopoulou 2003, 35:16, fig. 15, where, though, it is classified as FS 145; Melas 1985, 125-126, 297:1267.12 Tsountas 1908, 150-151, fig. 64; Furumark I, 608, dates this vase to the LH IIIB period, its dating, however, to the LH IIIA2 period is more probable, see Mountjoy 1999, 840, 842.13 Furumark I, 608, amphoroid (beaked) jug: form 42, FS 150-154; Furumark III, pl. 84-86; Mountjoy 1999 prefers the term “stirrup jug” for this type of vase. 14 Furumark I, 352-358, fig. 60.

first one in the row. The main decorative zone appears on the upper part of the body bordered by groups of two fine bands. A total of nine curve-stemmed spirals (FM 49:10-11)15 decorate this zone, one of which, yet again of smaller dimensions than the others, is inserted in the row between two large ones. A group of two fine bands just above the monochrome lower part of the body.

This type of vase appears in two main variations, which also stand for chronological indicators of its development: a. the earlier conical-piriform type with two handles (FS150)16 and b. the advanced slender piriform type with three handles (FS 151)17, although differentiations of this general typological scheme do exist18. The vase belongs to the first type (FS 150), which was introduced in the LH IIB period19 and remained in use up to the early LH IIIA2 period20. In terms of shape typology, then, this vase should be placed in the span between the LH IIB and LH IIIA2 period, a conclusion quite compatible with the dating of its decorative motifs. Indeed, this particular variation of running spiral (FM 46:54) appears in the Mycenaean repertoire during the LH IIIA2 period, when, that is, the motif of curve-stemmed spiral ceased to be in use (FM 49:10-11). On the basis of these correlations, the dating of the collection vase to the beginning of the early LH IIIA2 period or a little earlier, to the transition from the LH IIIA1 to the LH IIIA2 period, is highly probable.

3. Stirrup jar (FIG.3). Height: 0,097m. Body diameter:0,079m. Base diameter: 0,031m.Private Collection no. 118Provenance unknown FS 173. FM 18:81. LH ΙΙΙΑ2/IIIΒ1.

Intact small stirrup jar, with residue in places and slightly chipped, flaked and fissured all over the surface. Fabric fine, light brown, slip orange, paint ranging from black to red, flaky in places. Body globular, with two vertical strap handles from high up the shoulder to the slightly concave disc of the false mouth. The false neck and spout have concave outline, while the spout ends at a rounded rim. Flat disc base. The decoration of the body consists

15 Furumark I, 361-362, fig. 62.16 Furumark I, 608; Furumark III, pl. 84.17 Furumark I, 608; Furumark III, pl. 85; For specimens of this type, see Blegen 1937, 113, fig. 254; Holmberg 1983, 21-22, figs 8-9; Rudolph 1973, 57:3, 61:2, taf. 30:1, 33:2-3; Stubbings 1947, 49, pl. 14:5; Benzi 1975, 252:247; Renfrew et al. 2007, 315, fig. 8.7:119; Benzi 1992, 235, 236, 269, 289, 350, 352, 353, tav. 1:c, 2:c, 32:c, 46:c-d, 86:c-d, 87:c-d, 88:a-b, 129:a.18 (FS 151): Mussche et al. 1969, figs 18-19, with two instead of three handles; see also, Blegen and Rawson 1966a, 380-381 and Blegen and Rawson 1966b, figs 369:404-405, 370:405, where were located two specimens with two handles, instead of three, and two spouts, instead of one. 19 Keramopoulos 1917, 138-139, fig. 102:1. 20 Furumark I, 608, mentions two examples of the early LH IIIA2 period from Thebes and Kameiros; the former, however, should be dated to the LH IIIA1 period, according to Mountjoy 1999, 660, fig. 251:64.

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of two groups of fine and broad bands, while another broad band decorates the lower part of the body and base on the exterior. The shoulder zone displays a total of five stylized Mycenaean flowers (FM 18:81, 117)21. Bands at the base of the false neck and spout, which are joined into a single large oval. A thin band on the rim of the spout, on the interior and exterior. The handles are monochrome and have a rudimentary, carelessly drawn, triangle at the top. The disc of the false mouth is decorated with an also carelessly drawn spiral.

The vase of the collection belongs to the type of the small globular stirrup jar (FS 173)22, which, in fact, is a typological variation of FS 171. The only differentiation between these two types lies in the ratio of the height to the biggest body diameter, the height in the case of this particular type of vase (FS 173) being bigger than the diameter. Prevailing in the LH IIIB period, the type FS 173 has a widespread distribution as indicated by the occurrence of specimens across almost the entire domain of the Mycenaean world23. With regard to typology, then, our vase conforms to the LH IIIB period, although its decorative motif resembles more closely FM 18:81 of the LH ΙΙΙΑ2 period (with bold outline), than the corresponding version of the motif of the LH IIIB1 period cited by French24, or the FM 18:117 variation of the LH IIIB period quoted by Furumark25. On the basis of these data, the vase should be dated to the transitional period of LH IIIA2/B1, in which case the decorative motif should be seen as a survival into the early years of the LH IIIB1 period.

4. Cup (FIG.4). Height: 0,05m. Rim diameter: 0,07m. Base diameter: 0,056m.Private Collection no. 113 Provenance unknown FS 226. FM 53:1. LH IIIΒ1.

One-handled, intact, cylindrical cup with residue in places and slightly chipped and flaked all over its

21 Furumark I, 284-298, fig. 45.22 Furumark I, 612: globular, IIIB lower type false-necked jar; Furumark III, pl. 98.23 Blegen 1937, 63, 153-154, fig. 124, 383; French 1967, 151, 158-162, 168-169, fig. 2:52-213, pl. 38:b (right); Holmberg 1983, 27-29, fig. 16:19-20, although they are wrongly referred to as FS 171; Deshayes 1966, 91-92, pl. LXXXVI: 5-6; Rudolph 1973, 65:1, taf. 36:1, abb. 22:XVI; Choremis 1973, pl. 31:c-d; McDonald and Wilkie et al. 1992, 320, fig. 5-44:P3011; Blegen et al. 1973, 215, fig. 274:6a-6b, where, though, it is referred to as FS 171; Parlama 1974, 37, pl. 30:a-b, where it is referred to as FS 171; Papadopoulos 1978/79, 71, figs 95:g, 100:g-h, 108:d-e; Pαpazoglou-Manioudaki 1993, 211-212, pl. 23:e-f, 24:b; Kyparissis 1919, 115, fig. 29:2; Benzi 1975, 232:188, where it is also referred to as FS 171, 233-235, tav. X:197-198; Mylonas 1975Α, 323 and Mylonas 1975Γ, pl. 77:b (519); Mylonas 1959, 53-54, fig. 137:20; Mountjoy 1983 21-22, 88, figs 6:109, 35:74, pl. 3:a; Choremis 1972, 54:19-20, drawing 4, pl. IX:1756, 1763; Jannoray et Effenterre 1938, 142, pl. 27:2; Amandry 1938, 306, pl. XXXIII; Adrymi 1994, 227-228, figs 7, 9, where, though, it is referred to as FS 171; Vikatou 1999, 240, fig. 5:a; French 1966, 219; Verdelis et al. 1965, 145-147, 152, drawing 5:2-3. 24 French 1967, 160, fig. 10:15.25 Op. cit. note 21.

surface. Fabric fine orange, slip of similar colour, paint red, fading and flaky in places. Body cylindrical, spool-like, with markedly concave outline, small vertical strap handle from lower body to a little above the base. Flaring, rounded rim. Base flat, slightly rounded. A group of three bands, of uneven width, carelessly arranged, and another group of two bands with similar characteristics, decorate the upper part of the body, immediately below the monochrome rim, on the exterior and interior, respectively. A group of two bands also appears on the lower part of the body, a little above the base, while a broad band runs around the rounded edge of the base periphery. On the exterior, the central decorative zone, in the middle, displays a cursory wavy line (FS 53:17)26. On the handle, there are three cross splashes, recalling bands. The underside of the base is decorated with four concentric circles.

The vase of the collection is classified into the general category of cylindrical cups27, which are considered as ceramic imitations of metal prototypes28 and constitute, in fact, a continuation of the Vapheio type cups. The type appears in two basic variations FS 22529 and FS 22630, both of them having been introduced into the Mycenaean shape repertoire in the LH ΙΙΙΑ period, with FS 225 slightly preceeding chronologically the latter31. Our vase belongs to type FS 22632 as indivated by its markedly concave outline, a type that survives up to the LH ΙΙΙC period33. As a rule, decoration is arranged in two zones, both displaying a repetitive motif, while in the smaller-sized vases, occasionally, appears a single central decorative zone, as in the case of our specimen34. The vase, on the basis of its shape typology and decoration (FM 53:17), dates to the LH IIIB period and more precisely to the LH IIIB1 period.

26 Furumark I, 370-375, fig. 65.27 Furumark I, 622-623: cylindrical cup: form 62, FS 224-229; Furumark III, pls 127-129. 28 See Papadopoulos 1978/79, 124, fig. 268:c. 29 Furumark I, 623; Furumark III, pls 127-128; French 1964, 249, fig. 2:17, pl. 68:b; Daux 1960, 707, 709, fig. 2; Blegen et al. 1973, 56, fig. 155:17; Benzi 1975, 289-290; Hiller 1975, 78, taf. 9:135; Taylour and Janko 2008, 304-305, fig. 6.3:3034; Papadopoulos 1978/79, 124, fig. 268c; Müller 1992, 458, 459 fig. 7a:4; Blegen 1928, 139, fig. 130:1; Vikatou 1999, 242, fig. 10; French 1971, 36. 30 Furumark I, 623; Furumark III, pl. 128. 31 FS 225 seems to make its first appearance in the LH IIIA1 period, while FS 226 in the LH IIIA2. 32 For examples of this type, see Marangou 1996, 33, no. 6; Blegen 1937, fig. 100; French 1965, 176, fig. 8:1-4.; Wardle 1969, 272, fig. 4:18-19, pl. 60:c-d; Mylonas Shear 1987, 82-83, pl. 21:63-64, fig. 12:63-64; French 1966, 219, fig. 2:27; French 1967, 153-154, 169, fig. 7:53-801; Wendula Gercke and Gerhard Hiesel 1975, 17, abb. 4:4, taf. 20:4; Mylonas 1973, 102, pl. 114:b left; Hiller 1975, 96, taf. 33:310-314; Mylonas 1975Α, 197: 296 and Mylonas 1975Γ, 35:b (296); Tzavella-Evjen 1992, 77, fig. 8a; Benzi 1975, 191; Bronner 1939, 372-375, fig. 55, 56:b, m; Mountjoy 1983 24, 62, 74, figs. 7:141-148, 23:29, 29:111; Taylour and Janko 2008, 314. 33 Iakovidis 1969, 328:410, 333-334:276, 308:181 and Iakovidis 1969, fig. 93:b, 100:a, 102:c; Mountjoy 1994, 153, fig. 184; Vlachopoulos 2006, 415, drawing 27, pl. 65:5298. 34 Mountjoy 1994, 118, fig. 137:2.

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FIG�1� Beaked jug.

FIG�2� Amphoroid jug.

FIG�3� Stirrup jar. FIG�4� Cup.

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