Bamboula, Pottery classification

II Pottery

A. L.C.IIIA 1. Plain ware as before, but all small pieces made on quick wheel 2. Bucchero ware common, particularly in East of island. Both hand and wheel-made. Heir of Base Ring ware 3. Pilgrim flasks a. Some imported from east. Polychrome b. Local imitations in dark on light 4. Wheel-made imitations of L.C.II wares a. Base Ring ware b. Shaved ware 5. Painted ware a. Largely derived from Mycenaean, but strictly local development 1) influences chiefly of early panel style of L.C.II, but apparently some influence from more advanced style, as of Postern gate at Athens, and some even of Acropolis well. 2) Apparently some eastern influence b. Shapes 1) Mycenaean a) curved and carinated bowls as Acropolis well b) kraters, horizontal handles c) krater-amphorae d) feeding bottle (1) might be eastern e) jug with open spout, strainer (1) L.H.IIIA at Lalysos; Philistine f) false-necked jars. Tall. Knob on disc g) trefoil jug. (1) probably an eastern type, which reached Greece from East. Earlier in Cyprus than in Greece h) plain-mouthed jug (1) also in earlier native wares i) 3-handled jar 2) Non-Mycenaean a) chalice. Eastern b) conical filler c) Pointed jugs. Native d) Pilgrim flask. Eastern e) Native bowl types c. Decoration 1) Bands and enclosed spirals on bowls. 2) Elaborate designs mainly restricted to kraters, panel style bowls, strainer-spout jugs. 5) Patterns mainly geometric, but some representational 4) Panel style 5) tendency to combine patterns in one panel 6) interiors never painted solid; no large solid expanses on exterior. d. Mycenaean motifs.. some universal, may be due to other causes. 1) Scale pattern, dotted or not 2) dot-rosettes 3) wavy-line 4) scalloped verticals 5) concentric semi-circles, dotted. Very rare 6) dotted arcs 7) Closed spiral in int. of bowls 8) inverted V 9) various lozenges