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L. V. Watrous

fl. 1980–1996

Archaeologist and scholar, active 1980–1996.

Life and work

  1. 1980–1992
    Archaeologist of the Kommos excavations in Crete who published the imported fine wares found there (1980–1992), including Cypriot Base Ring II and White Slip II pottery and scattered Cypriot vessels from Late Minoan III contexts, and studied the Psychro Cave.

    Joseph W. Shaw; Maria C. Shaw, Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete Volume I Part II The Kommos Region and Houses of the Minoan Town Part I (1996), p. 65

  2. 1984
    Reported Cypriot-related pottery, BR II, WS II and Canaanite storage jars in LM III A 1 deposits at Kommos, Crete (1984).

    Peter Warren; Vronwy Hankey, Aegean Bronze Age Chronology (1989), p. 127

  3. 1984–1992
    Cited in footnote 21 as author of BICS 31 (1984) and Kommos III (1992) on pottery influence at Kommos; bibliographic reference only.

    Jan Driessen; Alexandre Farnoux, La Crète mycénienne : Actes de la table ronde internationale organisée par l'École française d'Athènes, 26-28 mars 1991 (1997), p. 190

  4. 1985–1992
    Cited as the source of the Kommos excavation catalogue entries and publications (1985, 1989, 1992) for these Late Bronze Age sherds from Crete.

    Eric H. Cline, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean (2009), p. 193

  5. 1992
    Surveyed the LM ceramic sequence at Kommos in his 1992 survey, based on Hilltop and Central Hillside excavations, without distinguishing the two later LM IA phases.

    Joseph W. Shaw; Maria C. Shaw, Kommos V: The Monumental Minoan Buildings at Kommos (2006), p. 413

  6. 1992
    Published a 1992 survey of the Late Minoan ceramic sequence at Kommos, based on Hilltop and Central Hillside excavations, which did not distinguish the two later LM IA phases.

    Joseph W. Shaw; Maria C. Shaw, Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete, Volume V: The Monumental Minoan Buildings at Kommos (2006), p. 413

  7. 1992
    Published (1992) Kommos pottery drawings with chevron, arc and infilled triangle motifs compared to Keftiu kilt designs.

    Sturt W. Manning, A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the chronology and history of the Aegean and east Mediterranean in the mid second millennium BC (1999), p. xxi

  8. Undated
    Published the study of the Psychro Cave sanctuary of Zeus in Crete, including a possible ram figurine.

    Robert LAFFINEUR; Robin HÄGG, POTNIA: DEITIES AND RELIGION IN THE AEGEAN BRONZE AGE (2001), p. 316

  9. Undated
    Prepared a report on the fine wares imported to Kommos, the basis of the passage's pottery discussion, and was to prepare a more complete study.

    Excavations at Kommos (Crete) during 1980 (1981), p. 246

Mentioned in

8 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.Joseph W. Shaw; Maria C. Shaw, Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete Volume I Part II The Kommos Region and Houses of the Minoan Town Part I (1996).
  2. 2.Joseph W. Shaw; Maria C. Shaw, Kommos V: The Monumental Minoan Buildings at Kommos (2006).
  3. 3.Eric H. Cline, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean (2009).
  4. 4.Joseph W. Shaw; Maria C. Shaw, Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete, Volume V: The Monumental Minoan Buildings at Kommos (2006).
  5. 5.Sturt W. Manning, A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the chronology and history of the Aegean and east Mediterranean in the mid second millennium BC (1999).
  6. 6.Peter Warren; Vronwy Hankey, Aegean Bronze Age Chronology (1989).
  7. 7.Jan Driessen; Alexandre Farnoux, La Crète mycénienne : Actes de la table ronde internationale organisée par l'École française d'Athènes, 26-28 mars 1991 (1997).
  8. 8.Robert LAFFINEUR; Robin HÄGG, POTNIA: DEITIES AND RELIGION IN THE AEGEAN BRONZE AGE (2001).
  9. 9.Excavations at Kommos (Crete) during 1980 (1981).

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