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PREFACE
This small book, outcome of two years' studentship in Greece and a season's
excavation in Egypt, is an attempt—the first so far as I know—to collect under
one cover all the Egyptian objects which have been found in the Aegean area
down to the close of the XXVIth Dynasty.
I had intended to include Rhodes, but have been dissuaded therefrom by two facts.
Firstly, it would entirely outbalance the rest of the book (there are some 1500 objects
from there). Secondly, the Italian excavations of Ialysos, the first scientific excava-
tions yet attempted on the island, are soon to be published, and I hope to show in the
report, which Professor Maiuri of Naples has done me the honour of accepting, the
importance of the Egyptian finds as supplementing the mass of material lying with
context unknown in the British Museum,1 and as showing beyond doubt how Rhodes
alone of the Aegean lands kept up close contact with Egypt throughout every period
from the Late Bronze Age.
I must meanwhile thank Dr Jacopi, Director of the Rhodes Museum, for his courtesy
in allowing me full permission to study the finds.
In the present catalogue the difficulties have been twofold: the extraordinary diversity
of publications and languages in which the original references are to be found; and
the widely scattered state of the objects themselves. Many have never been properly
published, or were published in the days when they themselves were the centre of
interest apart from where and in what context they were found.
The plan adopted has been to give a short account of each site from the point of
view in question, and then to give a catalogue of the objects with their context. The
numbering runs right through and the Dynasty is given a prominent place after each
object or series of objects.
Tables will be found at the end showing: (1) the objects which can be referred to
some definite pottery stratum; (2) the objects which can be referred to each Dynasty;
(3) the Museums which contain the objects; (4) the types of objects and their materials;
(5) the Kings or Queens who have left their names.
I have also included a list of sites in Egypt where Aegean pottery has been found,
though the details of this I hope to work out with my wife in another volume.
1 The most important objects in the British Museum are from Tomb 9 at Ialysos, with L.H. Ill pottery:
(1) large scarab of Amenhotep III (1412-1376); (2) smaller scarab of XVIIIth Dynasty, engraved with a
" ded " between uraei; (3) small scarab, broken, with a leaf design, also XVIIIth Dynasty (B.M. Vase Room I,
Case F. Forsdyke, J.H.S. xxxi. p. 114. Furtwangler-Loeschke, Mykenische Vasen, PI. E. Nos. 1-3).
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This small book, outcome of two years' studentship in Greece and a season's
excavation in Egypt, is an attempt—the first so far as I know—to collect under
one cover all the Egyptian objects which have been found in the Aegean area
down to the close of the XXVIth Dynasty.
I had intended to include Rhodes, but have been dissuaded therefrom by two facts.
Firstly, it would entirely outbalance the rest of the book (there are some 1500 objects
from there). Secondly, the Italian excavations of Ialysos, the first scientific excava-
tions yet attempted on the island, are soon to be published, and I hope to show in the
report, which Professor Maiuri of Naples has done me the honour of accepting, the
importance of the Egyptian finds as supplementing the mass of material lying with
context unknown in the British Museum,1 and as showing beyond doubt how Rhodes
alone of the Aegean lands kept up close contact with Egypt throughout every period
from the Late Bronze Age.
I must meanwhile thank Dr Jacopi, Director of the Rhodes Museum, for his courtesy
in allowing me full permission to study the finds.
In the present catalogue the difficulties have been twofold: the extraordinary diversity
of publications and languages in which the original references are to be found; and
the widely scattered state of the objects themselves. Many have never been properly
published, or were published in the days when they themselves were the centre of
interest apart from where and in what context they were found.
The plan adopted has been to give a short account of each site from the point of
view in question, and then to give a catalogue of the objects with their context. The
numbering runs right through and the Dynasty is given a prominent place after each
object or series of objects.
Tables will be found at the end showing: (1) the objects which can be referred to
some definite pottery stratum; (2) the objects which can be referred to each Dynasty;
(3) the Museums which contain the objects; (4) the types of objects and their materials;
(5) the Kings or Queens who have left their names.
I have also included a list of sites in Egypt where Aegean pottery has been found,
though the details of this I hope to work out with my wife in another volume.
1 The most important objects in the British Museum are from Tomb 9 at Ialysos, with L.H. Ill pottery:
(1) large scarab of Amenhotep III (1412-1376); (2) smaller scarab of XVIIIth Dynasty, engraved with a
" ded " between uraei; (3) small scarab, broken, with a leaf design, also XVIIIth Dynasty (B.M. Vase Room I,
Case F. Forsdyke, J.H.S. xxxi. p. 114. Furtwangler-Loeschke, Mykenische Vasen, PI. E. Nos. 1-3).
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