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J.A. MacGillivray

fl. 1983–1998

Finder and scholar, active 1983–1998. Worked with Catling.

Life and work

  1. 1983
    With Catling, reported in 1983 an Early Cypriot III vase (Red Polished III amphora fragment) from the palace at Knossos.

    Colin Renfrew, John F. Cherry, Peer Polity Interaction And Socio Political Change (1986)

  2. 1983
    Found the Early Cypriot vase fragments among the retained sherds from Knossos and identified them with Catling (1983); he dated the decoration of the Kamares cup from Karmi to MM IB.

    An Early Cypriot III Vase from the Palace at Knossos (1983), p. 2

  3. Undated
    Reported a fragmentary Cypriot Red Polished III amphora found in the basement of the palace of Knossos, a find linking Cyprus and Crete.

    Nancy H. Demand, The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History (2011), p. 106

  4. Undated
    Cited for the first ceramic exchanges between Crete and Cyprus at the end of the Early Bronze Age, as bibliographic support only.

    William A. Parkinson; Michael L. Galaty, Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age (2009), p. 149

  5. Undated
    Cited as authors of a report on an Early Cypriot III jar-fragment found at Knossos, Crete.

    Oliver Dickinson, The Aegean Bronze Age (1994), p. 243

  6. Undated
    Attributed the decoration of the Karmi Kamares cup to MM IB, possibly continuing into MM IIA, and stated it is unlikely to be later or earlier.

    Giampaolo Graziadio, The Aegean and Cyprus: Interaction Between Two Distinct Cultural Mediterranean Areas from the Third Millennium to Ca 1200 BC (2025), p. 87

In the field

1 record

boxes of retained sherds from the Monolithic Pillar Basement, Knossos

Discussed in documents

Sources

  1. 1.H.W. Catling, J.A. MacGillivray (1983). “An Early Cypriot III Vase from the Palace at Knossos”. The Annual of the British School at Athens 78, 1-8.
  2. 2.Colin Renfrew, John F. Cherry, Peer Polity Interaction And Socio Political Change (1986).
  3. 3.Nancy H. Demand, The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History (2011).
  4. 4.William A. Parkinson; Michael L. Galaty, Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age (2009).
  5. 5.Oliver Dickinson, The Aegean Bronze Age (1994).
  6. 6.An Early Cypriot III Vase from the Palace at Knossos (1983).
  7. 7.Giampaolo Graziadio, The Aegean and Cyprus: Interaction Between Two Distinct Cultural Mediterranean Areas from the Third Millennium to Ca 1200 BC (2025).

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