PRODUCTION PLACES OF SOME MYCENAEAN PICTORIAL VESSELS THE CONTRIBUTION OF CHEMICAL POTTERY ANALYSIS

Abstract

In the course of a project of determining the provenance of Aegean Bronze Age pottery with Neutron Activation Analysis 46 examples of Late Mycenaean pictorial pottery mainly deriving from the Pelo­ ponnese and Eastem Central Greece, but also from Macedonia, Cyprus and Western Anatolia were sampled and analyzed. The new corpus of analyses is presented and discussed tagether with 20 pieces of such pottery already analyzed by Perlman and Asaro. The Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) Ieads to the definition of 9 chemically different groups. the samples from the Argolid two groups called Mycenae/Berba ti and Tiryns/Asine, which are al­ ready weil known from the analysis of regular Mycenaean decor­ ated pottery, can be differentiated, and this is interpreted as the re­ sult of the existence of two workshops producing pictorial pottery. One of these was presumably situated in Tiryns or its vicinity, which is corroborated by the fact that all newly analyzed pieces from this site belang to this group. In addition, the results show that pictorial pottery in the palatial and post-palatial period was pro­ duced on a regional basis in different parts of the Greek Mainl and. In the pictorial pottery found in other parts of the Eastern Mediter­ ranean, however, of all these mainland Greek groups the group Mycenae/Berbati clearly predominates.

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