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Vases Marked for Exchange: The Not-So-Special Case of Pictorial Pottery
Large, bold marks are painted or incised on the handles or bases of thirty-seven pictorial vases. These same kinds of marks and same patterns of marking are found on non-pictorial Mycenaean pottery. In general, marks on Mycenaean pottery are rare and the circumstances of their use are not yet fully understood. It is clear that they are associated with Cyprus, and it is most likely that they are associated with Cypriot traders. The marks do indicate that pictorial vases were handled through the same channels and documented in the same manner as the trade in linear and pattern-decorated Mycenaean pottery
Appendix IV: Potmarks
I. Potmarks from the Limassol area tombs
The excavation of any Late Cypriote site settlement, tomb, shipwreck usually yields pottery marked with incised, impressed, or painted signs. The collection of marked pottery presented here is significant especially because it fills in the heretofore geographic lacuna between the substantial assemblages of Late Cypriote potmarks discovered in the Kouris (Smith 2012) and Vasilikos (E. Masson 1989; Cadogan, Driessen, and Ferrara 2009, 145) River Valleys. Smith has demonstrated how much marked pottery, considered in the context of other indications of administrative control, can reveal about the administrative, economic, and political organization of a region. The Vasilikos Valley merits similar treatment. In between there are now these twenty-eight marked vases from the Limassol district too few to indicate clearly how this region fitted into or rubbed against the marking practices used by its neighbours, but a start and, it is hoped, a promise of more
Preventing infections in non-hospital settings: long-term care.
Infection concerns in long-term care facilities include endemic infections, outbreaks, and colonization and infection with antimicrobial-drug resistant microorganisms. Infection control programs are now used in most long-term care facilities, but their impact on infections has not been rigorously evaluated. Preventive strategies need to address the changing complexity of care in these facilities, e.g., the increased use of invasive devices. The anticipated increase in the elderly population in the next several decades makes prevention of infection in long-term care facilities a priority
Potters\u27 Marks and Potmarks
The brief remarks and the detailed catalogue presented below, along with the author\u27s forthcoming (a) re-study of the discoveries of the British expedition to Enkomi, supplement and update the author\u27s 2002 study of the marked pottery found at Enkomi. In both cases, it is more a matter of adding, refining, and correcting than significantly changing the observations presented in the earlier paper. But even though they are not headline-grabbing, these contributions are important in that they add to the gradually accumulating evidence for marked vases in circulation in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Because we cannot (yet) \u27read\u27 the marks directly and must still rely on their patterns of occurrence in order to decipher their meaning(s), each new piece of evidence, or each piece of known evidence now more clearly defined, sharpens the patterns
Navigation and Transportation
Water was the most efficient means of transportation and travel in the ancient Greek world. Evidence of the movement of commodities and people comes from a combination of literary, iconographical, and archaeological sources
Signs of Writing? Red Lustrous Wheelmade Vases and Ashkelon Amphorae
One important question about Bronze Age potmarks is whether they are signs of writing. An affirmative answer has significant implications for our understanding of how widely a script was used within and between communities. This essay discusses two instances for which the claim of writing on ceramics has been made: Red Lustrous Wheelmade (RLWM) pottery and the “inscriptions” found at Ashkelon. In both cases, the question is whether the marks incised into these vases are to be identified as signs of the Cypro-Minoan script. The answer is important in the first instance for our understanding of the diversity and specialization of the Cypriot ceramic industry and in the second for our understanding of the use and influence of Cypriot writing outside the island
Cypriots to the West? The Evidence of Their Potmarks
Three amphora handles (Fig. 1), of Mycenaean type, bear the only possible traces of Cypriot writing found in Bronze Age Italy, and they are the only known possible direct traces of Cypriot participation in trade with the western Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age. In this paper, I proceed first with a brief description of the marked handles and their provenience; second, I illustrate their Cypriot associations; and finally I discuss possible implications of this identification
Eastwards via Cyprus? The Marked Mycenaean Pottery of Enkomi, Ugarit and Tell Abu Hawam
Based on her study of distribution patterns, Vronwy Hankey suggested that Cyprus or Cypriots played some role in the trade of Mycenaean pottery eastwards to the Levant. She also noted that some of the Mycenaean pottery which reached both Cyprus and the Near East carried marks incised on handles or painted on bases. This paper examines the possible relationships between the marks, Mycenaean pottery, Cyprus, and the trade in Late Bronze Age ceramics. Special reference is made to the evidence from the sites of Enkomi, Ugarit, and Tell Abu Hawam.
À partir de son étude sur les schémas de répartition, Vronwy Hankey a suggéré que Chypre, ou des Chypriotes, avaient joué un rôle dans le commerce de la céramique mycénienne en direction du Levant. Elle avait aussi remarqué qu\u27une partie de la céramique mycénienne qui était arrivée tant à Chypre qu\u27au Proche-Orient portait des marques incisées sur l\u27anse ou peintes sur la base des vases. Cette communication examine les liens possibles entre ces marques, la céramique mycénienne, Chypre et le commerce de céramique à l’âge du Bronze Récent. Une attention spéciale est portée aux données fournies par les sites d\u27Enkomi, Ougarit et Tell Abou Hawam
Cypriot Pottery
At least 3 of the 10 pithoi (large ceramic transport containers) stowed on the ship that sank at Uluburun contained Cypriot pottery: Bucchero jugs, lug-handled bowls, milk bowls, Base Ring bowls and a single juglet, White Shaved juglets, lamps, and wall brackets—about 140 pieces in total, excluding the pithoi. The Uluburun shipment and the ceramic cargo jettisoned off Point Iria on the Greek mainland a century later are the only extant excavated direct archaeological evidence for the transport of pottery in the eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age. These examples of ceramics-in-transport are highly significant for what they tell us about how pottery was procured and organized for shipment. This, in turn, is important because archaeologists often view imported ceramics as significant indicators of exchange and chronological synchronization
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