This shape, typical of Late Helladic or Mycenaean pottery, is an early form of the taller and thinner alabastron. The alabastron, which originated in Egypt, can be seen in a 6th century B.C.E. example ...

Up until now, a small minority of pottery from the earliest Mycenaean civilization has gotten nearly all of the attention. Work by University of Cincinnati doctoral candidate Jeffrey L. Kramer is ...

Blegen was the one who set up the original system for classification of Mycenaean pottery, which in turn has been revised by others and now Kramer. * Tsoungiza, also associated with Blegen.

Introduction. Pottery was produced in Greece as early as the Neolithic period, but the tradition of decorated ceramic vessels in Greece developed more quickly starting in the Bronze Age, a period that ...

Mycenaean pottery is derived from nine mounds in the Thermaic Gulf, mostly in the neighbourhood of Salonika, and all but three on the seashore. All this Mycenaean ware belongs, ...

Led by Angelos Papadopoulos, this lecture will focus on the history of archaeological research in the Eastern Mediterranean region through the examination of selected case studies, namely the ...