Mochlos IIB: Period IV. The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery: The Pottery

by R. Angus K. Smith

Overview

Excavations carried out at two Late Minoan III sites at Mochlos in eastern Crete yielded a pottery assemblage from 31 tombs and 11 houses, which are cataloged, discussed, and illustrated together with petrographic analyses. The cemetery remains mirror the settlement remains, and the conclusions discuss how the two sites reflect each other. Rarely in Crete are a settlement and its cemetery both preserved, and it is extremely fortunate to be able to document both in a series of scientific excavation reports (Mochlos vols. IIA-IIC).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931534543
Publisher:	INSTAP Academic Press
Publication date:	12/31/2010
Series:	Prehistory Monographs , #27
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 11.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Petrographic Analysis of the Late Minoan III Ceramics 2. The Late Minoan II-III Pottery 3. Conclusions: The Decoration, Character, and Relative Chronology of the Late Minoan II-III Pottery App. A. Petrographic Descriptions App. B. Earlier Minoan and Later Orientalizing Pottery from Late Minoan III Contexts Bibliography Conc. A Conc. B Index Tables Figures Plates

Editorial Reviews

This volume constitutes a remarkably interesting and indispensable source of information for those concerned with the modes of production, distribution and mainly consumption of ceramics...in LM II-IIIB Crete and especially in the increasingly less obscure and “wild” eastern Cretan region. It also offers an exemplary methodology for studying stratigraphically, chronologically and contextually well-defined assemblages of pottery.'

Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2010.11.41 - Charlotte Langohr