Pottery tradition associated with the Mycenaean civilization
Mycenae
Linear B Mukānai
A Mycenaean stirrup jar, hallmark of the olive oil trade in the Late Bronze Age. Furumark shape 46, type 171, Late Helladic IIIA or B, dated 1400 to 1200 BC.
Material
Terracotta
Discovered
Greek mainland and small islands close to it, from the Peloponnesus in the south to Macedonia in the north. Secondarily, regions in the eastern and to some degree western Mediterranean not in the core region to which the pottery was either exported or at which it was manufactured from local clays.
Discovered by
Heinrich Schliemann, Arthur Evans, Carl Blegen, among many others
Present location
Most major museums of the world, especially specialized museums in Greece.
Classification
An assemblage of pots and various pottery types known to have been originated, manufactured, or just heavily used by the Mycenaean culture, primarily early Greek, but not excluding some peoples of a different language.
Culture
Primarily Late Helladic (LH), secondarily as Mycenaean features of other culture groups.
Mycenaean palace states
Mycenaean pottery is the pottery tradition associated with the Mycenaean period in Ancient Greece. It encompassed a variety of styles and forms including the stirrup jar. The term "Mycenaean" comes from the site Mycenae, and was first applied by Heinrich Schliemann.
Mycenaeanpottery is the pottery tradition associated with the Mycenaean period in Ancient Greece. It encompassed a variety of styles and forms including...
Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to...
very sophisticated by its final stages, Cycladic pottery, Minyan ware and then Mycenaeanpottery in the Bronze Age, followed by the cultural disruption...
frescos, imagery of bulls and bull-leaping, and sophisticated pottery and jewellery; and Mycenaean art for its lavish metalwork in gold, imagery of combat and...
the mainland Mycenaean Greeks, forming a hybrid culture which lasted until around 1100 BC. Minoan art included elaborately decorated pottery, seals, figurines...
Cypriot and Mycenaeanpottery ended around 1200, trade in Cypriot pottery actually largely came to an end at 1300, while for Mycenaeanpottery, this trade...
of Mycenaean Greece. Minoan art has a variety of subject-matter, much of it appearing across different media, although only some styles of pottery include...
predominance of Mycenaeanpottery, to the almost extinction of Cycladic pottery styles. The construction of a megaron, a feature of the Mycenaean palaces of...
Cartwright, Mark. "MycenaeanPottery". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 6 October 2015. Brouwers, Josho. "Palace warriors: The End of Mycenaean civilization...
in Mycenaean ceramics. Mountjoy has written several books and received numerous awards and fellowships to continue her research on Greek pottery. Mountjoy...
Cypriot and Mycenaeanpottery ended around 1200 BC, trade in Cypriot pottery actually largely came to an end at 1300, while for Mycenaeanpottery, this trade...
just use the name "Mycenaean Koine"; that is, the Late Minoan pottery of Crete was to some degree just a variety of widespread Mycenaean forms. The designs...
Bammer 1990, p. 142 noted some still earlier placements of stones, Mycenaeanpottery and crude clay animal figurines, but warned "it is still to early...
c. BC and underlying the ancient Roman town. In the Mycenaean Period, Lipari has yielded pottery from LHI to LHIII. Lipari's continuous occupation may...
Geometric pottery. List of Greek vase painters § Geometric period Mycenaeanpottery Apulian pottery Orientalizing period Kerameikos Archaeological Museum Snodgrass...
Museum. On display is already Cycladic art. The Mycenaeanpottery is represented as well as the pottery from the geometric, the archaic, the classical...
A stirrup jar is a type of pot associated with the culture of Mycenaean Greece. They have small squat bodies, a pouring spout, and a second nonfunctioning...
count arrow heads, necklaces made of carnelian and amethyst, two Mycenaeanpottery vessels, etc. The first use of the tumulus (pithos burials' phase)...
Greek pottery led by Athens produced between roughly 1050 and 900 BCE, in the first period of the Greek Dark Ages. After the collapse of the Mycenaean-Minoan...
some Mycenaeanpottery. Arthur Evans, Duncan Mackenzie and their supporters were proposing that Mycenaeanpottery was a type of Minoan pottery. To the...
world in prosaic translations. The extensive Mycenaeanpottery found at Ugarit included two fragmentary Mycenaean terracotta figures which have been tentatively...
dynasts'. In 1918, however, Wace published an article entitled 'The Pre-MycenaeanPottery of the Mainland' along with Carl Blegen, whose own excavations at...
on a pottery wheel. A large variety of decorations and motifs are attested. This pottery is very similar to certain types of the Mycenaeanpottery from...
ranges from the Mycenaean era to the Roman period. View into the museum. Mycenaeanpottery, Palaiopolis, 1200-1150 BC Rooms of geometric pottery Fragment of...
a wider area. The decoration on Greek pottery after about 1050 BC lacks the figurative decoration of Mycenaean ware and is restricted to simpler, generally...
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