Two more Linear B inscribed stirrup jars from Malia

GERDA VON BÜLOW / SOFIJA PETKOVIĆ (ed.) GAMZIGRAD-STUDIEN I. RÖMISCH-GERMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN 75, 2020

2014

2012

Research Note 1, 2015

ACHAIOS, Studies presented to Professor Thanasis I. Papadopoulos, 2016

F. Calament and G. Hadji-Minaglou (eds), Baouit (2008-2018) Panorama et perspectives. Rencontre de l’archéologie et des textes. (Journées d’étude des 7-8 juin 2018. Paris, École du Louvre): 115-134. Cairo., 2023

Post-doctoral fellow f.r.s.-fnrs (uClouvain-inCal-Cemaaegis) Emanuella Alberti, department of history and management of Cultural heritage, university of udine, italy

Entre amulettes et talismans, les monnaies trouées : ce qui se cache sous les apparences i-xxxix ARTICLES H.W. Horsnaes, M. Märcher & M. Vennersdorf A stepping stone in the Baltic sea. Two millennia of coin finds and coin use-a case study of Vester Herred, Bornholm 1 Massimiliano Munzi e Tripolitanian countryside and a monetary economy: data from the archaeological survey of the territory of Leptis Magna (Libya)

American Journal of Archaeology, 1985

Stirrup jars, containers for oil and wine, are found at various sites throughout the Aegean from the time of their invention on Crete in MM III. Although much attention has been directed toward later versions (some with painted Linear B inscriptions), early stirrup jars-their origins, evolution, and distribution-have been poorly documented. Here the early history of this important vessel is examined. Since most early stirrup jars are sparsely decorated, if at all, the dating of individual specimens must usually be based upon typological details. Among the diagnostic features are the three-handle arrangement, disc hole, spout horns, and shape of the false neck and spout. By Late Minoan IA the form was well established on Crete and in the Cyclades. It was not, however, until LM IB/LH IIA that it reached the Greek mainland, and then only in small numbers. The stirrup jar,' a specialized container for oil or wine,2 is a vessel characteristic of the Aegean Late Bronze Age. Best known are the later versions, both the Mycenaean fine ware types, found throughout the eastern Mediterranean,3 and the large, coarse ware variety, many bearing painted Linear B inscriptions.4 Early stirrup jars have been relatively neglected. It is my intention to examine the date and place of the invention of the form, and its early typological development and distribution. Recent finds at Kommos on Crete, Ayia Irini on Keos, and Akrotiri on Thera have added fresh evidence, necessitating a re-examination of early stirrup jars. * A summary of this study was delivered at the 81st General Meeting of the AIA (Boston, December 1979): AJA 84 (1980) 210. It is part of wider research on the stirrup jar, and is a development of work done for my Ph.D. dissertation on coarse ware stirrup jars (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1981). SKnown also as Biigelkanne, and false-necked amphora. The name for the shape in Linear B, ka-rare we , is confirmed by a tablet at Knossos (K 778): M. Ventris and J. Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek2 (Cambridge 1973) 324, 328; A. Evans, Scripta Minoa 2 (Oxford 1952; hereafter SM) 778. 2 A note of caution should be sounded here, since the most secure evidence for contents comes from a much later context, 13th c. Pylos: for oil (Fr 1184), Ventris and Chadwick (supra n. 1) 481, and E. Bennett, "The Olive Oil Tablets of Pylos," Minos Suppl. 2 (1958) 40-41; for wine, C. Blegen, The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia 1 (Princeton 1966) 342-47, and AJA 63 (1959) 133-35. 3 Furumark Shape (FS) 165-85: A. Furumark, The Mycenaean Pottery (Stockholm 1941) 610. F. Stubbings calls the fine ware stirrup jar, often found in tombs, the Bronze Age equivalent of the Classical lekythos: BSA 42 (1947) 24. 4 FS 164. For inscribed jars, see J. Raison, Les vases a inscriptions peintes de lage mycinien et leur context archdologique (Rome 1968), and A. Sacconi, Corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B (Rome 1974); also H. Catling et. al., BSA 75 (1980) 49-113. The excavators at Troy used the word "oatmeal" as a descriptive term to indicate the fabric of these coarse ware stirrup jars: J. Caskey in C. Blegen et. al., Troy 3 (Princeton 1953) 305-306. s See BSA 9 (1902-1903) 138; Archaeologia 59 (1905) 510-11. 6 Furumark (supra n. 3) 19 and n. 5; see L. Pernier and L. Banti, II palazzo minoico di Festus 2 (Rome 1951) 491. Light-ondark pottery, thought at the time of Furumark's publication to end with MM III, was found in the destruction level of Casa 103. 7 R. Dussaud, Les civilisations prdhelliniques dans le bassin de la mer Eg&e (Paris 1910) 39 (LM I); E. Reisinger, Kretische Vasenmalerei vom Kamaresbis zumn Palast-Stil (Berlin 1912) 24 (LM I); H. Hall, Aegean Archaeology (London 1915) 94 (beg. of LM period); L. Renaudin, BCH 46 (1922) 144 (end of MM III or