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1939 Pottery and other Small Finds, 1939-1983

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/MCNE/3/3/4

Scope and Contents

This file features the small finds excavated during the British team’s 1939 season at Mycenae. Photographs are arranged in order of registered find number. At the end of the sequence, unregistered sherds are arranged according to their ‘P’ (full photographic plate) series negative number.
Items 88 onwards are a further batch of photographs of pottery excavated in 1939 from Atreus North Bothros, located in the uncatalogued section of the Mycenae Archive in 2025 and added to the catalogue at that point. Hence, they were not part of the 2020 Digital Mycenae project and their images do not feature on the Cambridge University Digital Library. They form an 'A' series, and a few from a 'M' series, as annotated on the verso. Togther with these extra prints were two handwritten lists by Sinclair Hood, giving full details of the pottery feactured in the 'A' and 'M' series of photographs.

Dates

  • Creation: 1939-1983

Creator

Extent

118 item(s) (118 items) : photographs

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

Photographs are arranged in order of excavation number. At the end of the sequence, unnumbered sherds are arranged according to the 'P' (full plate) series negative number. 'P 1' and 'P 21' are image of sherds excavated from the 1921 season but they are incorporated in this 1939 series, when they were photographed for the first time.

General

The Prinaria, this area of the Palace, on the citadel, is below the North terrace of the Archaic Temple. See Wace, A. J. B., and Porada, E. (1957). Part II. A Faience Cylinder. The Annual of the British School at Athens, 52, 197–204, p. 197, note 1, "In the excavation notebooks and on the labels this area was known as 'Prinaria' from the oak scrub'.

Repository Details

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