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XX, CATALOGUE OF VASES.
with Cretan late Neolithic and E.M. I, and the Second Period with E.M. II.
In regard to the Neolithic context of these two periods, it must further be noted
that at H. Marina several copper implements were found on virgin soil, below
the earliest red-on-white pottery,1 and that two bronze celts were found near a
house at Sesklo.2
After this time Thessaly cannot be considered as an isolated or independent
region. The Spercheios valley was merged with Boeotia in the growing Helladic
area, and the central and northern districts were largely pervaded by Servian
and Macedonian influences. The Third (Chalcolithic) Period is said to contain
the only decorated pottery that is found before the Mycenaean.3 These
are dark-faced fabrics, usually Black-polished and bearing white-painted>
scraped, moulded, or incised ornament of very simple kinds (A 217-20).4
Another variety, which has large spiral coils and angular patterns in thick and
unfixed white or pink paint, is known as Crusted Ware (A 221-2).s All these
have been found in Servia, and crusted ware also in Moravia and Hungary in
a Bronze Age context.1' The first class, which actually appeared in Thessaly
during the Second Period, belongs also to Macedonia (A 87). It is evidently a
European counterpart of the black Mediterranean ware which was typical of the
Early Bronze age in Asia Minor (p. xii), and may indeed be directly related to
that, for Anatolian forms have been found in Macedonia, as well as fabric and
decoration identical with those of the Yortan jugs.7 A roughly parallel date
( = E.M.II-III) is given by the presence of a local fabric of Dimini ware in
deposits of this pottery in the Vardar valley.s It is the earliest native pottery of
Macedonia that has been identified. The Dimini ware of Macedonia was first
found at Dikilitash in the Struma valley.9 Some .of it is identical with the
rougher fabrics at Dimini. A technical peculiarity is the use of lustrous graphite
paint. It is not yet possible to decide whether these finds point to movement
from Thessaly, or show the East European culture on its way to Greece.
The corresponding finds of red-on-white wares at Aivatli (A 88), Secies10 and
elsewhere are indubitable signs of Thessalian influence.
The Bronze Age in Macedonia, which was coincident with the Third and
Fourth Periods of Thessaly, seems to be represented by two kinds of pottery.
The typical Macedonian Ware is hand-made, of red, brown, or yellow clay, and
1 Soteriades, loc. cit., p. 276; Prehist. Thessaly, p. 24, note 5.
- A.-2., p. 351 ; Childe, J.H.S., xlii, p. 266.
3 Prehist. Thessaly, p. 22.
1 r 1 a 1, r 1 o 2, r 1 o 3, r 2.
'- r 1 7, r 15.
6 M.M. Vassits in Prahist. Zeitschr., II., p. 23; III., p. 127; B.S.A., xiv., p. 319; Prehist.
Thessaly, p. 232 ; Childe, ibid. p. 275.
7 L. Rey, in B.C.H., xli-xliii, p. 199, fig, 20.
8 J.H.S., xliv (1924), p. 260.
'■' F. B. Welch in B.S.A., xxxiii, p. 44: these sherds are now in the Ashmolean Museum at
Oxford.
10 L. Rey, loc. cit., p. 179.
with Cretan late Neolithic and E.M. I, and the Second Period with E.M. II.
In regard to the Neolithic context of these two periods, it must further be noted
that at H. Marina several copper implements were found on virgin soil, below
the earliest red-on-white pottery,1 and that two bronze celts were found near a
house at Sesklo.2
After this time Thessaly cannot be considered as an isolated or independent
region. The Spercheios valley was merged with Boeotia in the growing Helladic
area, and the central and northern districts were largely pervaded by Servian
and Macedonian influences. The Third (Chalcolithic) Period is said to contain
the only decorated pottery that is found before the Mycenaean.3 These
are dark-faced fabrics, usually Black-polished and bearing white-painted>
scraped, moulded, or incised ornament of very simple kinds (A 217-20).4
Another variety, which has large spiral coils and angular patterns in thick and
unfixed white or pink paint, is known as Crusted Ware (A 221-2).s All these
have been found in Servia, and crusted ware also in Moravia and Hungary in
a Bronze Age context.1' The first class, which actually appeared in Thessaly
during the Second Period, belongs also to Macedonia (A 87). It is evidently a
European counterpart of the black Mediterranean ware which was typical of the
Early Bronze age in Asia Minor (p. xii), and may indeed be directly related to
that, for Anatolian forms have been found in Macedonia, as well as fabric and
decoration identical with those of the Yortan jugs.7 A roughly parallel date
( = E.M.II-III) is given by the presence of a local fabric of Dimini ware in
deposits of this pottery in the Vardar valley.s It is the earliest native pottery of
Macedonia that has been identified. The Dimini ware of Macedonia was first
found at Dikilitash in the Struma valley.9 Some .of it is identical with the
rougher fabrics at Dimini. A technical peculiarity is the use of lustrous graphite
paint. It is not yet possible to decide whether these finds point to movement
from Thessaly, or show the East European culture on its way to Greece.
The corresponding finds of red-on-white wares at Aivatli (A 88), Secies10 and
elsewhere are indubitable signs of Thessalian influence.
The Bronze Age in Macedonia, which was coincident with the Third and
Fourth Periods of Thessaly, seems to be represented by two kinds of pottery.
The typical Macedonian Ware is hand-made, of red, brown, or yellow clay, and
1 Soteriades, loc. cit., p. 276; Prehist. Thessaly, p. 24, note 5.
- A.-2., p. 351 ; Childe, J.H.S., xlii, p. 266.
3 Prehist. Thessaly, p. 22.
1 r 1 a 1, r 1 o 2, r 1 o 3, r 2.
'- r 1 7, r 15.
6 M.M. Vassits in Prahist. Zeitschr., II., p. 23; III., p. 127; B.S.A., xiv., p. 319; Prehist.
Thessaly, p. 232 ; Childe, ibid. p. 275.
7 L. Rey, in B.C.H., xli-xliii, p. 199, fig, 20.
8 J.H.S., xliv (1924), p. 260.
'■' F. B. Welch in B.S.A., xxxiii, p. 44: these sherds are now in the Ashmolean Museum at
Oxford.
10 L. Rey, loc. cit., p. 179.