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AAA Archaiologika analekta ex Athenon Athens Annals of Archaeology Aegaeum Aegaeum Annales d'arch ologie g enne de l'Universit de Li ge AJA American Journal of Archaeology. The Journal of the Archaeological institute of America AM Mitteilungen des Deutschen Arch ologischen instituts, Athenische Abteilung AmerAnt American Antiquity AnatSt Anatolian Studies. Journal of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Antiquity Antiquity. A Quarterly Review of Archaeology AR Archaeological Reports...
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Fig. 7 EH III dark on light decorated jug Aegean area. 23 The role that maritime trade must have played for Aegina is underlined by the fact that seafaring is repeatedly the topic of the otherwise figure-less decoration of Aeginetan vessels Fig. 31 .24 The most distinctive feature of this phase, however, which must have been the result of a flourishing economy, is the apparent growth in the number of inhabitants, which increased in the course of the Middle Helladic period to such an extent that...
Contents
Aegina-Kolonna The History of a Greek 11 Reconceptualizing the Middle Helladic Type Site from a Ceramic Perspective Is Bigger Really 35 Aegina Kolonna MH III-LH I Ceramic Phases of an Aegean Trade-Domain 45 Aegina Kolonna, the Ceramic Sequence of the SCIEM 2000 Project 57 Coarse Ware from the Middle Helladic Settlement of Aspis, Argos Local Production and Imports 81 Aeginetan Matt Painted Pottery at Middle Helladic Aspis, Argos 97 Early Mycenaean Mortuary Meals at Lerna VI with special Emphasis...
Schematic Plan
Fig. A Aegina Kolonna schematic plan Fig. A Aegina Kolonna schematic plan A Fortification Wall B Inner City C New Excavation Area D First Extension of the City E Shaft Grave F Second Extension of the City Settlement Sequence Ceramic Sequence Settlement Sequence Ceramic Sequence Phase A with subphases A1, A2, etc. Fig. B Early and Middle Bronze Age settlement and ceramic sequence Fig. B Early and Middle Bronze Age settlement and ceramic sequence Fig. C Aegina Kolonna - Middle Bronze Age deposits...
Early Mycenaean Mortuary Meals at Lerna VI with special Emphasis on their
The integrative role played by feasting in the creation and maintenance of hierarchical social relations is well documented in the archaeological and ethnographic record. During the past decade, several archaeological contexts from the Bronze Age Aegean have been interpreted as remains of such activities. it is argued that a large portion of the mortuary remains from the two shaft graves at Lerna VI represent clear examples of this phenomenon already at the beginning of the Mycenaean period....
Aegina Kolonna the Ceramic Sequence of the SCIEM Project
Establishment of a stratigraphie and ceramic sequence from Early Helladic III EH III to Late Helladic I LH I at Aegina-Kolonna has been the main aim of the SCIEM 2000 project over the last years.1 This paper summarizes the most recent research and excavation work. We will also attempt here to compare the strati-graphic excavation results from the two main excavation areas with each other, namely the fortification wall Fig. A A and the so-called inner city to the west Fig. A B . The excavations...
Terminology and Phasing System at Kolonna
The terminology and phasing system at Kolonna, as well as some related problems, may be summarized as follows. In previous publications, three phases of occupation - Kolonna IV to VI - were distinguished for the EH III period, and four settlement phases -Kolonna VII to X - for the MH period.5 The same terms have also been used for describing the sequence of ceramic phases. This practice is in our opinion liable to lead to misunderstanding and we would like, instead, to distinguish clearly...
Reconceptualizing The Middle Helladic Type Site From a Ceramic Perspective Is
More than twenty years of strewing, sorting, and writing up sherd material of the Early, Middle, and Late Helladic hereafter EH, MH, and LH, respectively periods from half a dozen different excavations on the central and southern Greek mainland Korakou, Gonia, Ayios stephanos, Lerna, Athens, Tsoungiza, and Mitrou , in addition to ten years of similar work with Middle to Late Minoan hereafter MM and LM ceramics from a major site in south-central Crete Kommos , have persuaded me that MH pottery...
Aegina MH IIILH I Ceramic Phases of an Aegean TradeDomain
Two distinguishing features mark the urban development of Aegina-Kolonna during the middle phases of the Aegean Bronze Age the continuous growth of fortification walls around the main settlement and the establishment of an inner suburb or inner ring encased by much weaker fortifications Fig. 1 . These are features of a community that was flourishing and that consequently provided for its safety. Given the highly mercantile character of the site, it is not surprising that at the end of Middle...
Second group
13. Jar K 10 II 4 3143 Fig. 15a-c Biscuit reddish surface not burnished. Bichrome decor with stripes and curvilinear elements. 14. ginasch ssel K 10 II 10 Fig. 16a, b Fragments. D. ca. 0.26 m. Biscuit greenish stripes and curvilinear elements in dark matt painting, brown at the rim bichrome ware . 15. ginasch ssel K 10 II 16 3104 Fig. 18 D. ca. 0.28 m. Biscuit reddish yellow on the surface, light-colored slip decor with hanging bends bichrome ware . 16. ginasch ssel K 10 II 15 Fig. 17 D. ca....
Ceramic Phase G Figs
The transition to, and the beginning of, the MBA period are defined by ceramic phase G, in which some significant changes in the pottery assemblage are noticeable.24 Particularly interesting is an increase in gray pottery, imported as well as locally produced Fig. 2 19 23-17, 21b 06-2, 21b 07-5 . The repertoire of locally produced handmade gray pottery is limited mainly to shoulder-handled bowls, the so-called pl. 2.1 2004, 1111 n. 99, pl. 12.2. For comparison see Barber 1974, 24-5, fig. 2, pl....
Aeginetan MattPainted Pottery at Middle Helladic Aspis Argos
The pottery of Aeginetan provenance at Aspis in Argos belongs chiefly to two ceramic categories, matt-painted and coarse ware.1 In the present paper we will examine the matt-painted Aeginetan pottery, one of the most characteristic and most attractive groups in the Aeginetan repertoire. Toward the end of the 1970s, during conversation with Carol Zerner about the identification of Aeginetan matt-painted pottery, Gilles Touchais and I were quite puzzled to learn that a huge quantity of this ware...
Near Ellinika Ancient Thouria
Hope Simpson and Dickinson, in their Gazetteer of Aegean Civilisation in the Bronze Age in 1979, mentioned the site of Ellinika about 10 km north of Kalamata.1 According to their description of the area, a ridge oriented north-south, nearly 1.8 km in length, running parallel to and east of the Kalamata-Tripolis highway, is situated to the east and above the villages of Antheia and, to its south, Aithaia Fig. 1 .2 Traces of the Classical and later town had been observed mainly at the north end...
Prreface by the Editors
The long-term excavations at Aegina-Kolonna, the importance of the site for the Middle Bronze Age and our participation in the SCIEM 2000 project formed the starting point for the organization of an international workshop on Middle Helladic Pottery and Synchronisms, held at the Department of Classical Studies at Salzburg University from October 31 to November 2, 2004. From the earliest excavations on the Kolonna hill, by Adolph FurtwAngler and Valerios Stais at the end of the 19th century, it...
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All the fragments of incised coarse ware seem to belong to medium-sized wide-mouthed jars, with or without vertical handle.43 The few incised handles we recorded have a somewhat flat or rectangular, rather than cylindrical section. It is worth noting that a relatively high proportion of the incised fragments about 20 percent were found in MH IB-II levels. This is not surprising, since at other sites for instance, Lerna and Asine this cat egory is present already during the transition from EH...