Forsdyke, Edgar J.; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 1,1): Prehistoric Aegean pottery (London, 1925)

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PREHISTORIC AEGEAN POTTERY.

CRETE.

The pottery from Knossos was presented in 1906, mostly by Sir Arthur
Evans ; the rest and that from Zakro by D. G. Hogarth. Other vases and
fragments from Palaikastro and other sites excavated by the British School at
Athens, ; ere presented by the School in 1907.

For Knossos, see the excavators' reports in B.S.A., vi-xi; A. J. Evans, The Palace of
Minos at Knossos ; D. Mackenzie, The Pottery of Knossos, in f.H.S., xxiii, xxvi ; for Palaikastro,
B.S.A., viii-xii ; R. C Bosanquet and R. M. Dawkins, The Unpublished Objects from the
Palaikastro Excavations (= B.S.A., Supplement 1) ; Psychro, P.S.A., vi ; Petras, B.S.A.,
viii ; Praisos, U.S.A., viii ; Zakro, B.S.A., vii, and Dawkins, Pottery from Zakro, in f.H.S.,
xxiii ; Gournia, H. Boyd Hawes and others, Goumid ; Vasiliki, R. B. Seager, ibid, and
in Trans. Dept. Arch. Univ. Pennsylvania, vols, i, ii ; Pseira, Seager, Anthr. Pub. Univ.
Pennsylvania, vol. iii, no. 1 ; Mochlos, Seager, Explorations in the Island of Mochlos.

NEOLITHIC (A40L-A404).
A 401-3. Fragments excavated at Knossos. Bright burnish and elaborate incision are

Fig. 83.—Middle and Late Neolithic Ware, from Knossos and Magasa.

characteristic of the Middle Neolithic period, to which about half the pre-Minoan
deposit at Knossos is assigned. The earlier fabrics (Lower Neolithic) are