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Another Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Fragment from Berbati

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

J.H. Crouwel
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Abstract

A fragment of Mycenaean pottery with pictorial decoration probably from a deep bowl krater, a chance find picked up at Berbati and previously in a Dutch private collection has been recently deposited in the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam. It depicts, partly preserved, a bird in flight. No parallels for this can be cited from Berbati, Mycenae or Tiryns, but there are similar birds on shallow bowls from Cyprus and Ras Shamra. It is suggested that the new sherd demonstrates that these pots were all made in the North East Peloponnese.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 84 , November 1989 , pp. 201 - 204
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1989

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Acknowledgements. I am most grateful to Dr H.W. Catling for discussing this pottery fragment with me and to Messrs G. Strietman and G-J. van Rooy for the drawings and photograph respectively.

Abbreviations in addition to those in standard use:

Berbati 2 Å. Åkerström, Berbati 2. The Pictorial Pottery (1982). MPVP E. Vermeule and V. Karageorghis, Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting (1982).

1 Berbati 2. For the site, see also a.o. Simpson, R. Hope and Dickinson, O.T.P.K., A Gazetteer and Atlas of Aegean Civilisation in the Bronze Age I: the Mainland and Islands. SIMA (1979) 39 no. A 5.Google Scholar

2 A. Furumark, (1941) shape 281; Mountjoy, P.A., Mycenaean Decorated Pottery. SIMA 73 (1986) 115 with fig. 142 (LH IIIB1)Google Scholar, 129 with fig. 159 (LH IIIB2). A good example is the restored krater with bovids and birds from Berbati itself, Berbati 2, no. 135 with Pl. 23 and colour Pl.

3 The so-called Potter's Quarter seems to have been abandoned at some time during LH IIIB, see Berbati 2, 15f., 23f.; Sherratt, E.S., BSA 75 (1980) 179f.Google Scholar

4 For birds, see Berbati 2, nos. 204–249, also nos. 135, 148 and p. 64f.

5 MPVP ch. 7–11; Slenczka, E., Figürlich bemalte Keramik aus Tiryns. Tiryns VII (1972)Google Scholar; J.H. Crouwel, forthcoming fascicule in the Well Built Mycenae series, edited by W.D. Taylor, E.B. French and K.A. Wardle.

6 MPVP V. 119–123, also p. 56 s.v. V. 119 and p. 176 (painter 23), cf. V. 116 (birds with similarly rendered wings, but otherwise quite different, on another shallow bowl from Cyprus); Karageorghis, V., AA 1967, 162–168.Google Scholar

7 MPVP V.121; CVA Bonn 2, 102 with Pl. 33:3–4 (Akademisches Kunstmuseum 780; H. 0.059–0.065; Diam. rim. 0.203–0.207).

8 MPVP V.44, IX.20, 21.

9 MPVP V.44, IX.20.

10 Karageorghis, op. cit. (n. 6) 168.

11 Demakopoulou, K. and Crouwel, J.H., BSA 79 (1984) 42f.Google Scholar, 45 with nn. 40–41 (refs.) s.v. no. 7; Berbati 2, nos. 139, 152 and p. 113; Crouwel, op. cit. (n. 5) nos. H. 34 and 35. For recent pictorial additions from Cyprus, see Karageorghis, V., RDAC 1986, 51 with pl XIGoogle Scholar; Maier, F.G. and von Wartburg, M-L., AA 1986, 189 with figs. 75–76.Google Scholar