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Chapter 49 - Pottery Production

Vases and Sarcophagi

from Part VII - Aegean Art of the Mainland Mycenaean Palatial Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2022

Jean-Claude Poursat
Translated by
Carl Knappett
Jean-Claude Poursat
Affiliation:
University of Clermont-Ferrand
Carl Knappett
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

The many variations in vase shape and decorative syntax mean that several phases can be distinguished (IIIA2, IIIB1, IIIB2), at least in mainland Greece. The prolific output of workshops during this period brings about the development of ever more pronounced stylisation and abstraction. Still, it is not the case that this evolution is quite as linear as has been assumed, and the relative degeneration at the end of this period is likely less to do with a weakening of artistic sensibilities and more the disruption of pottery production after the serious destructions of 1250 bc.

Furumark’s (1941) study on Mycenaean pottery in general, and on this period in particular, remains pivotal, even though at the time of its publication the number of known vases was limited and their contexts not always tightly dated.

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History
 , pp. 470 - 484
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Betancourt, 1985: Betancourt, P., The History of Minoan Pottery, Princeton, NJ.Google Scholar
Furumark, 1941: Furumark, A., The Mycenaean Pottery, I: Analysis and Classification, Stockholm.Google Scholar
Güntner, 2001: Güntner, W., Tiryns XII. Figürlich bemalte mykenische Keramik aus Tiryns, Mainz.Google Scholar
Hatzaki, 2007: Hatzaki, E., in Momigliano, N. ed., Knossos Pottery Handbook: Neolithic and Bronze Age (Minoan), Athens, 223–48.Google Scholar
Karageorghis, and Vermeule, 1982: Karageorghis, V., Vermeule, E., Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting, Cambridge, MA.Google Scholar
Mountjoy, 1993: Mountjoy, P., Mycenaean Pottery: An Introduction, Oxford.Google Scholar
Mountjoy, 1999: Mountjoy, P., Regional Mycenaean Decorated Pottery, Rahden.Google Scholar
Rystedt, and Wells, 2006: Rystedt, E., Wells, B. eds., Pictorial Pursuits, Stockholm.Google Scholar
Saporiti, 1990: Saporiti, E., The Pictorial Style in Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Pot Painting, PhD Dissertation, New York University.Google Scholar

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