Knossos: ‘geometric’ tombs excavated by d. g. hogarth, 1900

Annual of the British School at Athens

Volumn 97, Issue , 2002, Pages 201-216

  Coldstream, J N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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References (27)

1. Hogarth, BSA 6 (1899-1900), 70, 81-2.
2. Marked with well over a hundred crosses on Hogarth's plan, (n. 2), pl. 12. In more recent excavations, workmen accidentally encountering his trial trenches have become accustomed to referring to them as ‘Kokartiko’, as a distinct chronological phase.
3. Marked with well over a hundred crosses on Hogarth's plan., 70-8: KS 2 no. 297.
4. Distinct, of course, from the Kephala hillock on which the Palace was built.
5. H. Payne, BSA 29 (1927-1928), 231.
6. e.g. KS 2 no. 41: KNC 714, n. 1612.
7. Evans, PM ii (1928), opposite p. 547. This was also the view of Payne, who in 1929 excavated in this area an undisturbed Minoan tomb and two more Early Greek tombs: (n. 7), 226, nn. 2-3. For further details of the two Early Greek tombs: sec below n. 29.
8. Under the heading of Hogarth's tombs the Museum inventory also lists eight large closed vessels: three ‘two handled stamnoid amphorae’ (nos. 2342, 2344, 2346) and five ‘amphorae’ (nos. 2392-6). Their heights ran from 35 cm (no. 2394) to 55 cm. (no. 2344). In Hogarth's report the only possible reference to them is to ‘two large Geometric amphorae’ in tomb 5; but since none of these large vessels is placed on the shelves with Hogarth's finds, it is possible that there may have been some initial misunderstanding of their provenance when they were inventoried in 1901, later corrected when the pottery was arranged in the apotheke.
9. KNC 412-14.
10. The rosette is a common motif on LM III relief beads in gold and glass: see R. A. Higgins, Greek and Roman Jewellery 2nd edn. (London, 1980), 77-80, fig. 13.1.
11. KNC 121.1, fig. 117.
12. Cf. KNC 211, fig. 47, the three stone stands (marked A-C) for very large vessels in tomb 219.
13. W. Lamb, Greek Bronzes (London, 1929), 33, no. 4; P.J. Riis, Acta Archaeologica, Copenhagen 10 (1939), 6, no. 11; J. Benson, GRBS 3 (1962), 11, no. 9: H. W. Catling, Cypriot Bronzework in the Mycenaean World (Oxford, 1964), 198, no. 18, pl. 30 e; B. Schweitzer, Greek Geometric Art (London, 1971), 166-7.
14. Catling (n. 15).
15. Id., RDAC 1984, 88-91 and in KNC 596.
16. e.g. in the Teke tholos, BSA 49 (1954), 225, nos. 39-48, pl. 23; F nos. 674-9, pl. 46, from Tomb TFT; KNC 132.15-23, pl. 172.
17. D. Evely, KNC 626 7 n. 1392, gives a full list of the occurrences of stamped clay beads in Crete. Sec also J. Boardman, BSA 55 (1960) 146-8, fig. 10.
18. KNC 302, 331-2. Our FIG. 4 is KNC 200.4, fig. 128.
19. BSA 63 (1968), 205-12, fig. 2.
20. R. W. Hutchinson, BSA 49 (1954), 215-24, pl. 19
21. As Mr Hood has pointed out to me, Hogarth may have used the term ‘tholus’ indiscriminately, to describe any vaulted tomb with a circular floor, with or without masonry. Hogarth's mention of the ‘crown of the vault’ implies that he found it intact; if so, it might seem surprising that no trace of any masonry in this tomb is visible today. One might also wonder whether a stone vault only 5 ft. 8 in. (1.73 m) high could have held above a floor diameter up to 10 ft. (3.05 m). On the other hand, Hogarth also excavated a ‘tholus tomb built with small stones’ in a distant north-eastern quarter of the cemetery area near the modern hamlet of Sellopoulo (Hogarth, 81; KS 2 no. 27); there, too, although Hogarth mentions masonry, no trace of it is visible today.
22. Fno. 336, pl. 21; Higgins (n. 12), 108.
23. PG symposium sets are well preserved in the bell-kraters F nos. 221 and 428, and KNC 285.82.
24. KS 2 12, fig. 3.
25. G. Cadogan, BSA 62 (1967), 257-65.
26. KCN 714-15.
27. However, 7th-c. sherds are illustrated by M. Hartley, BSA 31 (1930-1931); 98-102, figs. 28-30, pls. 20-21, apparently from two more Early Greek tombs excavated by Payne in 1929 in the area of Hogarth's plot; see also under KS 2 no. 39. Furthermore, slightly to the south, between KS 3 nos. 39 and 40, a plundered tomb cleared in 1957 produced abundant sherds of the seventh century, many being from badly worn polychrome pithoi: J. N. Coldstream, BSA 58 (1963): 42-3. Pl.14.