Pottery

Petsas House, a multi-story Late Bronze Age building complex on the Pezoulia slope to the northwest of the citadel at Mycenae, offers a uniquely rich window into the settlement's history — and into the history of archaeology itself. First uncovered by accident in 1950 when a farmer's plow extracted a large vase from just below the surface, the site was hastily excavated under the supervision of Fotis Petsas, then left unstudied and overgrown for nearly half a century before being relocated during the Mycenae Survey and re-excavated systematically from 2000 onward. This paper traces the...

This article examines the social dimensions of pottery production at Petsas House, a Late Helladic IIIA2 workshop-residence complex northwest of the Mycenae citadel, based on excavations initiated in 2000 to complete work begun by Papadimitriou and Petsas in 1950-1951. The terraced two-story structure combined craft production, large-scale ceramic storage, and domestic habitation, but was destroyed by earthquake and fire late in LH IIIA2. The building contained distinct functional zones including storerooms with over 500 vessels in Room Alpha, undecorated drinking vessels in Room Epsilon,...

This article presents the pottery and figurines recovered from a Mycenaean rubbish pit excavated by the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project at Tsoungiza in 1984-1985. The deposit appears to preserve a complete range of vessels used for personal consumption, serving, cooking, storage, and other household activities, with nearly all diagnostic sherds dating to Late Helladic IIIB1. Analysis of this material suggests that, despite variations in the frequencies of some closed vessels and kraters, the residents of this small Mycenaean community had access to the same range of ceramics in...