Mycenaean pottery from qantir-piramesse, egypt

Annual of the British School at Athens

Volumn 96, Issue , 2001, Pages 123-155

  Mountjoy, P A ^a   Mommsen, H ^b  

^a British School   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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EID: 85012558535     PISSN: 00682454     EISSN: 20452403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0068245400005244     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. M. Popham in V. Karageorghis, (ed.), Acts of the International Archaeological Symposium ‘The Relations between Cyprus and Crete, ca. 2000-500 BC’, Nicosia 16th April-22nd April 1978 (Nicosia, 1979), 190.
2. H. Mommsen, A. Kreuser, E. Levendowski, and J. Weber, ‘Provenancing of pottery: status report and grouping’, in M. Hughes, M. Cowell, and D. Hook (eds), Neutron Activation and Plasma Emission Spectrometric Analysis in Archaeology (BM Occ. Paper 82; London, 1991), 57-65.
3. I. Perlman and F. Asaro, ‘Pottery analysis by neutron activation’, Archaeometry, 11 (1969), 21-52 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1969.tb00627.x.
4. T. Beier and H. Mommsen, ‘Modified Mahalanobis filters for grouping pottery by chemical composition’, Archaeometry, 36 (1994), 287-306 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1994.tb00971.x iid., ‘A method for classifying multidimensional data with respect to uncertainties of measurement and its application to archaeometry’, Naturwissenschaften, 91 (1994), 546-8.
5. J. Buxedai Garrigos, ‘Alteration and contamination of archaeological ceramics: the perturbation problem’, JAS 26 (1999), 295-313.
6. H. Mommsen, ‘Provenance determination by trace element analysis: problems, solutions and applications’, Workshop on Archaeometry in Archaeology: New Trends, Rhodes, 3-7 November 1999, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (in press).
7. Cr is 11.4% down, Yb 5.7% up. J. F. Strange, ‘Excavations at Sepphoris: the location and identification of Shikhin, Part II’, IEJ 45 (1995), 171-87.
8. See Mommsen et al. (n. 5).
9. A group pattern of seven samples with nine elements: Perlmann and Asaro (n. 7), table 5; for the same pattern, now with twenty samples with fifteen elements, see H. V. Michel, J. D. Frierman, and F. Asaro, ‘Chemical composition patterns of ceramic wares from Fustat, Egypt’, Archaeometry, 18 (1976) 85-92 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1976.tb00147.x, table 2. Both patterns are multiplied by a best relative fit factor of 0.40 to adjust for the Ca dilution, see TABLE 1.
10. Compare the group of 32 samples with eighteen elements Perlmann and Asaro (n. 7), table 6; see also Michel et al. (n. 13), table 2, including Ca.
11. Index, 7-8.
12. AJA 86 (1982), 273.
13. Index, 190-1 Types J, K.
14. See e.g. RMDP Rhodes no. 78 FS 37. 8.
15. RMDP Rhodes no. 78 FS 37. 8., Korinthia no. 122 FS 40. 2.
16. For these shapes see MDP figs. 122, 136 and 88 (LH III A2 variant).
17. Leonard (Index, 41) mentions only one sherd of the narrow necked type and none belonging to the other two types.
18. MDP Fig. 116.
19. I thank V Hankey for this information.
20. Index, 15-17, 20-1.
21. The first colour always refers to clay.
22. MDP fig. 119.
23. Index, 35.
24. MDP fig. 122.
25. RMDP Korinthia no. 129 FS 164. 5.
26. I thank V. Hankey for this information. Tel el Amarna: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Deir el-Medina: M. Bell, ASAE 68 (1982), 143-63.
27. MDP fig. 127.
28. Mommsen et al. (n. 5), 169-78.
29. MP 611-12.
30. MDP fig. 128.
31. See RMDP Laconia no. 150 for an example.
32. For examples see RMDP Laconia no. 150 for an example., Phocis no. 101 FS 179. 3 (rounded shoulder), Korinthia no. 130 FS 180. 5, Attica no. 228 FS 180. 10.
33. For examples see RMDP Laconia no. 150 for an example., Kalymnos no. 3 FS 182. 10.
34. See For examples see RMDP Laconia no. 150 for an example., Argolid no. 195, Attica no. 159 for LH III A2 versions of the shape.
35. MP 619.
36. Index, 93.
37. For the shape see RMDP Attica no. 236 with fine line group and Argolid no. 258 without fine line group.
38. MP 621-2; Index, 97-102.
39. MDP fig. 141.
40. C. W. Blegen, Zygouries: A Prehistoric Settlement in the Valley of Cleonae (Cambridge, 1928), 143-7.
41. Index, 108.
42. I thank V. Hankey for this information.
43. See e.g. E. Vermeule and V. Karageorghis, Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting (Cambridge, 1982), 35-68.
44. Index, 113-17.
45. Index. 12.
46. See RMDP Attica no. 209 for a LH III A2 example.
47. Furumark lists only four examples: two from Rhodes, one from Attica and one from Zygouries (MP 643); to these can be added one from Orchomenos, P. A. Mountjoy, Orchomenos, v (Munich, 1983), pl. 4 b.
48. A. Furumark, The Chronology of Mycenaean Pottery (Stockholm, 1941), 116-18.
49. See Index, 7 for a synopsis.
50. MDP fig. 126.
51. Index, 44-5.
52. I thank V. Hankey for this information.
53. MDP fig. 132.
54. See Index, 80-3 for the division into subtypes.
55. MP 616.
56. See RMDP, amphoroid krater LH III B Kos no. 65, LH III C Early Rhodes no. 130 (possibly LH III B2), Astypalaia nos. 6, 7; kalathos LH III C Early Attica no. 382, LH III C Middle Kos no. 190.
57. The sherd would be too inturning for a ring-based krater, the other possible shape. See MDP fig. 188 for the shape.
58. RMDP Kos no. 65, Astypalaia no. 6.
59. Leonard lists only one example for Syria-Palestine and notes that it is rare in Cyprus (Index, 123).
60. Leonard lists only one example for Syria-Palestine and notes that it is rare in Cyprus. 22-33.
61. MDP fig. 152. 2.
62. MDP fig. 152. 2. 124.
63. RMDP Rhodes nos. 135, 151.
64. See T. Dothan, The Philistines and their Material Culture (New Haven, 1982), pl. 26 stirrup jar, pls. 55-6 strainer jugs.
65. The Philistines and their Material Culture. 139 fig. 31.
66. Index, 190-1 Types J, K, M.
67. MDP fig. 93. 3.
68. Index, 81-2.
69. Index. 190-1 Type M.
70. Index. 82-3.
71. MDP fig. 136. 3.
72. Index, 117-22.
73. I thank A. Caubet, V. Karageorghis and N. Hirschfeld for permission to look at the material from Ugarit in the Louvre.