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Some Mycenaean Artists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

F. H. Stubbings
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The uniformity of Mycenaean pottery in its third phase (L.H. III) has often, and naturally, been remarked upon. It was made, we may almost say, by mass-production methods, in so far as such methods may be achieved when the only machine available to aid the potter's hand is his wheel. In the ‘Potter's shop’ at Zygouries certain types repeat themselves by the score with scarcely any variation in size or shape, and with only a little in decoration; from Cyprus, as the Corpus Vasorum will show, one may see in the British Museum alone dozens of small stirrup-jars with so little to differentiate one from another that one cannot remember them individually. More than this; we can find stirrup-jars (and the same is true of other types) from Rhodes or Mycenae or even Egypt that are indistinguishable from the Cypriot ones. There is in fact plenty of evidence to justify the use of terms like uniformity, standardisation, sameness, even monotony, that are sometimes employed in speaking of L.H. III pottery.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 46 , November 1951 , pp. 168 - 176
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1951

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References

1 See C. W. Biegen, Zvgouries, 143 ff.

2 CVA Great Britain I, pls. 2 and 3.

3 E.g. in Klio XXXII 134, and elsewhere in the same article.

4 In BSA XLII 1 ff., and in Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant.

5 Zygouries, figs. 135–7 and pls. XVI–XVIII.

6 Cf. Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant, 37 f.

7 C575 has a mark on the base (Myc. Pott, from the Levant, 47, no. 10) which supports this view: cf. op. cit. App. B.

8 Myc. Pott, in the Levant 46, nos. 2 and 5.

9 Tomb 18, side-chamber, no. 50. Illustrated in SCE I, pl. CXVIII 7; the design in Sjöqvist, Problems of the Late Cypriot Bronze Age, fig. 21, 4.

10 From tomb 3, no. 262. Illustrated in SCE I, pl. CXXI 3–4; the design in Sjöqvist, Problems of the Late Cypriot Bronze Age, fig. 20, 3.