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Excavations at Mycenae, 1939

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

A. J. B. Wace
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The following is the first instalment of the report of the excavations at Mycenae in the summer of 1939, undertaken by an expedition, largely from Cambridge, under the aegis of the British School at Athens. A preliminary account of the main results appeared in the Journal of Hellenic Studies for 1939, 210 ff. The following students of the British School at Athens took part in the work at Mycenae: Miss Helen Thomas and Miss Vronwy Fisher of Girton College, Mr. F. H. Stubbings, Fellow of Emmanuel College, and Mr. Arnold Silcock, F.R.I.B.A. Other members of the expedition who undertook various parts of the work were Mrs. Alan Wace, Mr. Joseph Last, Mr. Michael Fuller and Mr. Colin Kraay of Oxford, and Dr. and Mrs. F. W. Goethert of Berlin. Miss Elizabeth Wace was actively present throughout. Orestes Dasis was foreman and Ioannis Katsarakis was mender.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 45 , November 1950 , pp. 203 - 228
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1950

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References

1 BSA XXV, 103 ff.

2 Ibid., pl. I.

3 Karo, Schachtgräber, I ff.

4 Schliemann, Mycenae, 162 ff. There are really only four vases, Karo, op. cit., 16, 63, nos. 157–160. In the National Museum at Athens there are two other unbroken Middle Helladic vases from Schliemann's excavations (nos. ino and 1305) which may well have come from M.H. graves; Wace, Mycenae, 61, note 5.

5 Karo, op. cit., 16.

6 Tsountas-Manatt, Mycenaean Age, 97.

7 BSA XXV, 55 ff.

8 BSA XXV, 76, 118.

9 BSA XXV, 78.

10 BSA XXV, 94.

11 Tsountas-Manatt, Myc. Age 114.

12 Schliemann, Mycenae, 350 ff., pl. G.

13 BSA XXV, 119.

14 BSA XXXIX, 65 ff.

16 BSA XXV, 105, pl. I, 63.

16 BSA XXV, 118.

17 Schachtgräber, 16.

18 For this method of attaching handles cf. Goldman, Eulresis, 120 and fig. 164.

19 E.g., from Gonia, Blegen, Karakou 11, fig. 11.

20 Blegen, Prosymna, fig. 75 no. 1202.

21 Blegen, Korakou, 15, fig. 20.

22 Goldman, Eutresis, 135 ff., figs, 183–5.

23 Cf. Blegen, Korakou, 17, fig. 23: 1, 2, 4.

24 For examples from Argos see BCH XXX (1906), 12 and figs. 9, 10.

25 At Prosymna Grave XVII, which was Middle Helladic, had a rock-cut ledge along the sides at the top; Blegen, Prosymna, 41.

26 Mycenaean Pottery, fig. 15. Exx., Blegen, Prosymna, fig. 655, no. 489; Mylonas, fig. 102, no. 360.

27 Op. cit., fig. 16. Exx., Blegen, Prosymna, fig. no, no. 215; Wace, Ch. Tombs, pl. XXXIV, 16, 17.

28 Blegen, Korakou, fig. 66.

29 Wace, Ch. Tombs, pl. XXVII, no. 10; pl. XLVIII, no. 4.

30 AM XIV, pl. XI, 1.

31 E.g., Blegen, Prosymna, figs. 137, top right, and 652, no. 343.

32 Blegen, Korakou, fig. 73, L.H. II.

33 Mylonas, 129 fig. 108, left, L.H. II.

34 Good examples in Blegen, Korakou, figs. 66 (right) and 79 (right).

35 Schliemann, Mycenae, 109, fig. 164.

36 AM 1886, 440, no. 5.

37 Lolling, Kuppelgrab bei Menidi, pl. IV, 14.

38 BCH 1878, pl. XV, 6.

39 Schliemann, Mycenae, 109, fig. 163.

40 Frödin-Persson, Asine, 283, fig. 194, 2–4.

41 Blegen, Prosymna, 37 f.

42 Blegen, Korakou, pl. VI. 1 and fig. 76; Prosymna, fig. 676, no. 425.

43 Wace, Ch. Tombs, pl. XXVII, tomb 515, no. 2. Cf. other exx. in this pl. and pl. XLIII.

44 Blegen, Prosymna, fig. 687, for example.

45 Shape: Wace, Ch. Tombs, pl. XXXIV, 16, 17. Decoration: ibid. pl. I, 40; Blegen, Prosymna, fig. 669.

46 Symbolae Osloenses IX, 31.

47 Symbolae Osloenses IX, 31.

48 For the pattern cf. Blegen, Korakou, fig. 34, 14.

49 See Wace, Mycenae, 61 f., 132 ff.

50 Symbolae Osloenses IX, 31.

51 Blegen, Prosymna, 37 f.

62 Discussed by Wace, Ch. Tombs, 148. Furumark's type 218 (fig. 13).

53 Wace, Ch. Tombs, pl. I, tomb 529, no. 1; pl. XXXIV, tomb 517, no. 11; pl. XLI, tomb 518, no. 37.

54 Blegen, Prosymna, fig. 660.

55 Cf. ibid., fig. 674 for decoration and Pshape; also fig. 683 for decoration.

56 Ibid., fig. 653. Cf. Mylonas, fig. 96 (right).

57 Ibid., fig. 652.

58 E.g., ibid., figs. 654, 656, 657.

58 Cf. ibid., fig. 654 (alabastron); Wace, Ch. Tombs, pl. XXXIII, 2 (squat jug).

60 Cf. Wace, Ch. Tombs, pl. XLI, tomb 518, no. 35; and for another shape with spiral underneath base, pl. XXXIII, tomb 517, no. 12.

61 Cf. Furumark, Myc. Pottery, fig. 50, motif no. 22, 2, and examples cited there.

62 Blegen, Korakou, 32 f., Class D I, with fig. 47 and pl. 11 2, 4, 6, 8.

63 Op. at., 28 and fig. 40. Id., Zygowries, 134 and fig. 127.

65 Id., Prosymna, 386 f., and pl. IV.

66 11, 16, 5.

67 It must be remembered that the two tholos tombs called to-day the Tomb of Clytemnestra and the Tomb of Aegisthus have no connection with the Prehistoric Cemetery or with the tradition recorded by Pausanias, for these names are quite modern and are merely archaeological conveniences.

68 For the chronology see Wace, Mycenae, 62 f., 132 ff.

69 Wace, Mycenae, fig. 71 c, 1–3.

70 Wace, op. cit., 62.

71 BSA XXV, 422 f.

72 Blegen, Zygouries, fig. 168, no. 329.

73 Schliemann, Tiryns, no. 49.

74 Mycenaean Pottery, figs. 16–17.

75 Op. cit., fig. 15.

76 Detailed descriptions of these are unfortunately not now available. See introduction.

77 BSA XXV, 416 ff.