Koukounaries I: Mycenaean Pottery from Selected Contexts

Robert B. Koehl

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781789698756
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: History

The excavations on the Koukounaries Hill, Paros, Greece, conducted under the direction of Demetrius U. Schilardi for the Archaeological Society at Athens from 1976 to 1992, revealed a 12th century B.C.E. Mycenaean building, an Iron Age settlement, and an Archaic sanctuary. Koukounaries I: Mycenaean Pottery from Selected Contexts presents the pottery from five areas inside the building: three large storerooms, the main east-west corridor, and a small shrine, as well as the pottery from a limited reoccupation after the building's fire destruction and abandonment. The ceramics from the main occupation phase comprise the largest and best-preserved domestic assemblage from the 12th century B.C.E. in the Cyclades and offer important evidence for the continuation of Mycenaean culture after the destruction of the mainland palatial citadels. The small deposits of pottery from the reoccupation phase, provide important stratigraphic evidence for defining the Late Helladic IIIC ceramic sequence. The volume also considers the function of the individual spaces within the building, based largely on the patterns of shape distributions and quantities, with the statistics for each context presented in a series of appendices. Other issues area also explored, including the evidence for itinerant potters, the trade in antique vases, and the place of origin of the settlers who founded and inhabited the Mycenaean building on the summit of the Koukounaries Hill.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents Page
• List of Figures in Text
• List of Tables in Text
• Color photographs
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1
• Introduction
• Chapter 2
• Main occupation phase contexts and pottery
• Chapter 3
• Reoccupation phase contexts and pottery
• Chapter 4
• Shapes, decorations, and internal distributions
• Chapter 5
• Relative chronology of the pottery
• Chapter 6
• Identifying the people from their pottery
• Appendix 1
• Chemical analysis of Mycenaean pottery from Koukounaries, Paros
• Appendix 2
• Statistics of the pottery from the five main occupation phase contexts
• Appendix 3
• Surface treatment statistics for FB kylikes, low-stemmed cups, and deep bowls
• Concordance of Catalog numbers and Paros Archaeological Museum registration numbers
• Bibliography
• Profile drawings
• Black and white photographs
• Index