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Grey Wares from Lesbos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

W. Lamb
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The north-west corner of Asia Minor, Lesbos and, in particular, Mytilene, have long been recognised as the home of these grey wares called Lesbian or Aeolic bucchero. With remarkable tact, citizens of Mytilene resident in Naukratis proved the point by inscribing their names and place of origin on the grey vases they dedicated. Their evidence was, however, supplemented by the discovery of grey pottery like their own in towns as near Lesbos as Larissa and Troy VIII.

Several centuries before Lesbian bucchero flourished, the same district produced a distinguished grey ware of which the home was in the sixth city of Troy. This pottery left descendants in the seventh city—side by side with the Buckelkeramik—and these descendants would seem to be the direct ancestors of the bucchero of Troy VIII, Lesbos and other Aeolic sites.

Returning to Troy VI, we find that some of its grey wares are unmistakably Minyan, which enables us to carry the pedigree further back still. Minyan ware is found in the second Minoan period, about 1900 B.C. Nor can it be denied that the fabrics of Troy VI are derived ultimately from those of Troy II and Troy I.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , 1932, pp. 1 - 12
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1932

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9 I should like, also, to express my gratitude to Mr. Walters for permission to publish the British Museum vases on Pl. I and in fig. 5.

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18 Lower part of body restored.

19 This evidence comes from one trench only and may require modification next season.

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21 As many of the photographs supplied had no scale, I have pasted them up irrespective of size.

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