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Four Early Roman Groups from Knossos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

J. W. Hayes
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The purpose of the present article, which forms one of a series of reports on the Knossos excavations of 1951–61, is to present a cross-section of pottery and other small finds of the early Roman period (first century B.C. to first century A.D.) from Knossos. Three good deposits of this period were found during the work in 1958–61; these, together with a fourth group of similar date found in 1951, are published here. Excluded from the present article is the stratified material of the period from the Royal Road site, which will be published shortly in a general report on the excavations there.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 66 , November 1971 , pp. 249 - 275
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1971

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Acknowledgements. The publication of this material was suggested to me by Mr. M. S. F. Hood while he was Director of the British School. I thank him and Mr. J. N. Coldstream for their encouragement and assistance over the intervening years. Thanks are also due to the British School and Mr. A. H. S. Megaw for permitting me to stay at the Knossos dig-house on a number of occasions, and in particular for financial support on the occasion of one such visit (in the spring of 1967). I also wish to record my debt of gratitude to the excavators of the various sites, without whose patient labour this would never have been written; their names are duly recorded below. Most of the photographs are the work of Mr. Coldstream and Mr. L. H. Sackett and are reproduced here with their permission. The objects are now stored in the Stratigraphical Museum at Knossos.

1 For this and the following references, see Hood, M. S. F.et al., Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area (British School at Athens, London, 1958).Google Scholar

2 By Mr. A. C. Young.

3 Under the supervision of the author.

4 It is possible that the final section of the excavator's notes has been lost or mislaid; those available to myself make no mention of the bottom having been found.

5 Publication forthcoming.

6 Possibly the same as C. Stlacci (see Callender, M. H., Roman Amphorae (London, 1965) 116 no. 486Google Scholar), though this seems unlikely in view of the early context.

7 For this, see especially Homann-Wedeking, B., ‘A kiln site at Knossos’, BSA xlv (1950) 165–92Google Scholar, pls. 12–16 passim.

8 Cf. Homann-Wedeking, op. cit. 183, fig. 23A.

9 Ibid. 181, fig. 20.

10 Cf. for instance Athenian Agora v, F 60–2 and G 99.

11 For an earlier version of the type, see Homann-Wedeking, op. cit. 184, fig. 25B.

12 For Hellenistic types, see Thompson, , Hesperia iii (1934) 466Google Scholar, C 70, etc.; closer parallels to the present pieces are provided by the later vessels Athenian Agora v, F 83–5. For a local example of Hellenistic date (with vertical handles) see Homann-Wedeking, op. cit. 185, fig. 25E.

13 See Hesperia iii (1934) 466 fig. 121, and Athenian Agora v, F 76 for the general type.

14 e.g. Athenian Agora v, G 193–5, J 55–7, etc.