A Group of Late Helladic IIIB 1 Pottery from Mycenae

French, Elizabeth

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“…The height of curved wall α is only about 0.20 m (Hood 1953a, 24; X048, 110; Taylour 1955, 209; X1076, 61). Curved wall α, like the rest of the foundation, lies partly on earth (PCC III) and partly on bedrock (PCC IV) and showed that the Great Poros Wall was not set in a foundation trench (Hood 1953a, 23–4; X048, 113; French 1966, 217 n. 10).…”

Section: The Great Poros Wallmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is because the relationship between this layer and the retaining wall gives us the stratigraphic sequence, which enables us to use the deposit of pottery found in trenches III and IV of the Prehistoric Cemetery Central to date the tomb. Fortunately, the pottery from PCC III and IV has been published (see French 1966).…”

Section: The Relevant Trenchesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3). This surface was just 0.20 m down (Hood X048, 113; French 1966, 217). Hood (1953a, 23) stressed that this surface of hard tramped earth was not only ‘at the same level as the white clay plaster floors immediately to the east’ but was ‘evidently in use at the same time’.…”

Section: The Relevant Trenchesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…c. 1300 bc or c. 1220 bc (Iakovidis et al 2003, 52). The earlier date was first proposed by Wace (1940, 246–7; 1949, 17–18, 35, 128–9) and has been championed by the likes of French (1969, 72 n. 9; 1989, 125; 2002, 10, 70–1), Hope Simpson (1981, 13–14) and Mountjoy (1993, 17–18, 149), while those who have expressed support for the later date include Mylonas (1957, 91, 96–7; 1966, 122), MacKendrick (1965, 70–1), Iakovidis (1978, 46, 48) and Crowley (2008, 265).…”

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The Date of the Tomb of Clytemnestra

Mason

2013

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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The construction date of the Tomb of Clytemnestra at Mycenae is disputed, opinion being divided over whether the tomb was erected at the end of Late Helladic IIIA or towards the end of Late Helladic IIIB. The article attempts to resolve this debate by examining all of the dating evidence for the tomb. It stresses that the most valuable clues to the date of the tomb come from the excavations that were carried out in  and  on either side of the Great Poros Wall, the retaining wall that supported the eastern side of the earthen mound above the tomb. Several trenches of these excavations are discussed in detail, specifically V and M, both of which were sunk into the earthen mound behind the wall, and L, P, III and IV, all of which were located immediately in front of the wall. The information on these trenches is drawn not only from the published reports, but also from the original excavation notebooks. The pottery from them is used to determine the date of the tomb. What emerges is that the Tomb of Clytemnestra was, in fact, built at the beginning of Late Helladic IIIB.

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Section: The Great Poros Wallmentioning

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The Date of the Tomb of Clytemnestra

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2013

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“…A general trend for geometric and symmetrical organization of the motifs can be seen in their arrangement between triglyphs and the restriction of the free composition on the surface of the vase. The large percentage of kylikes and the absence of type A deep bowls suggest an LH IIIB1 date (Mountjoy 1986, 121;French 1966;1967). 19…”

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Reconstructing Cycladic Prehistory: Naxos in the Early and Middle Late Bronze Age

Cosmopoulos

1998

Oxford J Archaeology

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The lack of published deposits from Cycladic settlement contexts has been a serious setback to our knowledge of Cycladic prehistory, as it has led to inflexible 'pan-Aegean' models of cultural history, imposed on the islands without consideration of local particularities and regional variations. Naxos, the largest and most central of the Cyclades, is a prime example of an important island, whose cultural history, especially in the early and middle Late Bronze Age (roughly from the sixteenth to the thirteenth centuries BC), is not well known. In the present article the author reconstructs the stratigraphic and chronological sequence of the island's only excavated settlement at Grotta, examines the development of settlement pattern on Naxos, and attempts to assess the position of the island in the Aegean during the periods in question. It is suggested that the fluctuations in the number of settlements and the changes in settlement pattern of the island could be tied to the degree of integration of the island into the Minoan and Mycenaean exchange networks. In periods of limited integration (LC I/II and LH IIIB) the settlement pattern consists of one or two important centers (Mikre Vigla and/or Grotta) and a number of small settlements dispersed in the interior of the island. In periods of advanced integration (LH IIIA1-IIIA2), a process of nucleation takes place, in which small settlements are abandoned, Mikre Vigla declines, and Grotta is established as the only settlement of the island.

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Elizabeth (Lisa) Bayard French (1931–2021)

Sherratt

2022

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Lisa French (1931–2021) was the first woman to be appointed as Director of the British School at Athens, from 1989–1994. Most of her adult life and career were devoted to the site of Mycenae, where she excavated with her father, Professor Alan Wace, in the 1950s and after his death in 1957 with Lord William Taylour. Thereafter, she continued studying and publishing the results of the excavations and studying and publishing on Mycenae and Mycenaean material culture more generally for the rest of her life. In 2013 she donated the Mycenae archive, containing records of all the British excavations at Mycenae, to the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge. She married David French in 1959, by whom she had two daughters. Her marriage led to her combining her work at Mycenae with playing an important part in French's excavations and, after he became Director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, in effect taking responsibility for running the Institute from 1968 until 1976. The organisational experience this gave her proved invaluable when, after their divorce, she took up the wardenship of Ashburne Hall at Manchester University and later still when she became Director of the British School at Athens. Lisa was best known for her work on the Mycenaean terracotta figurines, which were originally the subject of her PhD thesis at University College London, and on the stratigraphically based chronology and typology of Mycenaean ceramic production, particularly that of Late Helladic III. Over the years, she successfully initiated successive generations of students of Mycenaean archaeology into the mysteries of its pottery.

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A Group of Late Helladic IIIB 1 Pottery from Mycenae

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The Date of the Tomb of Clytemnestra

The Date of the Tomb of Clytemnestra

Reconstructing Cycladic Prehistory: Naxos in the Early and Middle Late Bronze Age

Elizabeth (Lisa) Bayard French (1931–2021)

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