Knossos: Early Greek occupation under the Roman Villa Dionysos

Annual of the British School at Athens

Volumn 98, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Coldstream, J N ^a   Hatzaki, Eleni M ^a  

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EID: 61949398014     PISSN: 00682454     EISSN: 20452403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0068245400016889     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Fortetsa: Early Greek Tombs near Knossos (Cambridge, 1957). References are given only to the catalogue numbers, which follow in sequence throughout.
2. J. W. Hayes, 'The Villa Dionysus excavations, Knossos: the pottery', BSA 78 (1983), 97-179.
3. J. N. Coldstream and H. W. Catling (eds), Knossos North Cemetery: Early Greek Tombs (BSA supp. vol. 28; London, 1996).
4. J. N. Coldstream, L. J. Eiring and G. Forster, Knossos Pottery Handbook, Greek and Roman (BSA Studies 7; London, 2001).
5. M. S. F. Hood and D. Smyth, Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area (2nd edn., BSA supp. vol. 14; London, 1981).
6. Sara Paton, 'The Villa Dionysus and its predecessors', in W. G. Cavanagh and M. Curtis (eds), Post-Minoan Crete, Proceedings of the First Colloquium (BSA Studies 2; London, 1998), 123-8.
7. V. R. d'A. Desborough, Protogeometric Pottery (Oxford, 1952).
8. L. H. Sackett (ed.), Knossos, from Greek City to Roman Colony: Excavations at the Unexplored Mansion at Knossos (BSA supp. 21; London 1992).
9. Paton 1998 with references.
10. All the excavated material is stored in the Stratigraphical Museum at Knossos, under the excavation code VDoo (= Villa Dionysos 2000). All the pottery has been kept and washed in fresh water apart from the amphora C1, which after desalination was washed in acid diluted water. The Greek and Roman pottery is stored in three separate groups, according to the method in which the material was processed by Coldstream: (a) catalogued and published pottery stored according to Deposits B-F, (b) selected diagnostic sherds stored according to Deposit/'zembil' sequence, (c) all the remaining pottery kept according to Deposit/'zembil' sequence.
11. The use of arabic numerals has been employed, as distinct from the later VD periods in roman numerals as published in Paton 1998, 125, fig. 15.1. Phases 1-3 predate Paton's Phase I, whereas Phase 4 = Paton's Period IV.
12. Nomenclature: in the excavation notebook and pottery labels the Minoan fill was recorded as Pit 1.
13. Paton 1998, 123-4.
14. Wall 2 is 0.55 m wide and was traced for 1.20 m to the W; part of the wall's N face was completely robbed. Wall 3 is 0.53 m wide and was traced for 1.55 m; it is constructed out of slightly smaller stones in comparison to Wall 2.
15. The top preserved course of Wall 2 was exposed with level 8 zembil 17 which produced MG pottery.
16. See Paton's Phase III, Paton 1998, 125 fig. 15. 1.
17. Paton 1998, 125 fig. 15.1 and 126.
18. Paton 1998, Period III.
19. 2 nos. 185-6;
20. BSA 95 (2000), 261, fig. 1.
21. AR 40 (1994), 75.
22. Hayes 138-40 nos. 231-2, 240-1.
23. The Hellenistic pottery, especially plentiful in Hole V of January 2000, will be treated elsewhere.
24. Recently summarized by Paton 1998, 123-4.
25. Unpublished, in typed MS. I thank Sara Paton for a copy of this document.
26. On the Subgeometric element in Knossian Orientalizing pottery see KPH II, 70.
27. A more detailed stone-by-stone plan will be published by Sara Paton in her forthcoming definitive report on the Villa Dionysus, incorporating the results of her excavations in 1999-2000, and subsequent tests under the mosaic floors. This plan will show many additional pre-Roman walls not appearing in Paton 1998, fig. 15. 1, on which our FIG. 1 is based.
28. Almost all from Hole C of 1999 in the S walk of the peristyle, and from the SE trenches of 1971 (Hayes 99, fig. 1).
29. BSA 94 (1999), 289-307.
30. Hayes 100-2, 163-8.